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Stendhal


Born
in Grenoble, France
January 23, 1783

Died
March 23, 1842

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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). ...more

Average rating: 3.82 · 117,285 ratings · 6,342 reviews · 1,902 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Red and the Black

3.86 avg rating — 84,982 ratings — published 1830 — 91 editions
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The Charterhouse of Parma

3.78 avg rating — 20,228 ratings — published 1839 — 441 editions
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Love

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3.60 avg rating — 2,101 ratings — published 1822 — 294 editions
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Roșu și negru #1

3.94 avg rating — 981 ratings — published 1830 — 52 editions
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Armance

3.37 avg rating — 1,114 ratings — published 1827 — 144 editions
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Chroniques Italiennes

3.64 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1837 — 135 editions
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Lucien Leuwen

3.83 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 1894 — 12 editions
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Vanina Vanini

3.24 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 1829 — 2 editions
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La badessa di Castro

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3.28 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1832 — 24 editions
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Roșu și negru #2

3.94 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1830 — 51 editions
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“A good book is an event in my life.”
Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
Stendhal, Love

Polls

June 2016 Old School Classic Poll

 
  47 votes, 24.0%

5th century BC, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, 273 pages
 
  37 votes, 18.9%

 
  33 votes, 16.8%

1837, The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, 801 pages
 
  20 votes, 10.2%

1830, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages
 
  19 votes, 9.7%

 
  10 votes, 5.1%

1885, Germinal by Émile Zola, 592 pages
 
  10 votes, 5.1%

 
  9 votes, 4.6%

440 BC, The Histories by Herodotus, 716 pages
 
  7 votes, 3.6%

 
  4 votes, 2.0%

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