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A portrait of one of the most ruthlessly charming heroes in literature, "The red and the black" chronicles the rise and fall of Julian Sorel. Born into peasantry, he connives his way into aristocratic circles. But his powers of seduction lead to his downfall when he commits a crime of passion.
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"The Charterhouse of Parma" (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of...
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This work mirrors, rather than paints, 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, wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy.
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