It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circumstances and wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy. On the road to the surprising crime he commits (out of passion, principle or insanity), he turns into Stendhal's greatest and most completely human creation.
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Language Notes:
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1953
- ISBN 10 0140440305
- ISBN 13 9780140440300
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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