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The story of an ambitious youth without birth or fortune in France in the 19th century.
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Prestige, character-led, bleak and spare.
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“Verrieres is no doubt one of the prettiest small towns in Franche-Comte.”
Stendhal était le pseudonyme de l'écrivain français du XIXe siècle Marie-Henri Beyle. Reconnu pour son analyse fine de la psychologie de ses personnages, il est considéré comme l'un des premiers et des plus importants représentants du réalisme dans ses deux romans, *Le Rouge et le Noir* (1830) et *La Chartreuse de Parme* (1839). ---------- Stendhal was the pseudonym of the 19th-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle. 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).
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“Is this Stendhal's best work?”
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“Is the first half stronger than the second?”
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“Is the prose doing more work than the plot?”
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