Stendhal

James Madden

A major new translation of Stendhal's masterpiece by acclaimed, bestselling translator Burton Raffel, "The Red and the Black" tells of Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man from the provinces fueled by dreams of Napoleonic heroism.

A Chronicle of 1830

The Red and the Black

Ilya

I love the freshness of the woods and the peacefulness of the fields, exactly as you say. You’ve often accused me of being a romantic. For the whole rest of my life I don’t want to hear anything about politics, and yet it’s politics that’s chasing me away.

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