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Stendhal


Born
in Grenoble, France
January 23, 1783

Died
March 23, 1842

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Henri-Marie 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: 3.83 · 97,422 ratings · 4,474 reviews · 1,319 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Red and the Black

3.87 avg rating — 70,860 ratings — published 1830 — 2228 editions
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The Charterhouse of Parma

3.80 avg rating — 17,324 ratings — published 1839 — 21 editions
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Love

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3.66 avg rating — 1,730 ratings — published 1822 — 241 editions
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Roșu și negru #1

3.95 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 1830 — 34 editions
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Armance

3.39 avg rating — 909 ratings — published 1827 — 377 editions
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Lucien Leuwen (Folio (Galli...

3.85 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1894 — 82 editions
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Chroniques Italiennes

3.62 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 1839 — 64 editions
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Vanina Vanini

3.25 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 1829 — 95 editions
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Roșu și negru #2

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1830 — 46 editions
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The Abbess of Castro (The A...

3.22 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1832 — 219 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

January 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our January 2015 Old School Classics group read?

1851, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, 257 pages
 
  14 votes, 23.7%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages
 
  11 votes, 18.6%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages
 
  7 votes, 11.9%

 
  4 votes, 6.8%

1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages
 
  4 votes, 6.8%

 
  4 votes, 6.8%

 
  4 votes, 6.8%

1894, The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 368 pages
 
  3 votes, 5.1%

1847, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 251 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.4%

 
  2 votes, 3.4%

1830, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 607 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.4%

1869, The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, 560 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.7%

1895, Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, 272 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.7%

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