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The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Red and the Black

Stendhal with Horace B. Samuel (Translator)

541 pages first pub 1830 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark mysterious tense slow-paced
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After Napoleon’s defeat, the French aristocracy tried to reassert its power in a government known as the Restoration. Venal and corrupt, the Restoration fell in 1830. Later that year, Stendhal published his scathing satire of Restoration society,...

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