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Scarlet and Black by Stendhal

ISBN: 9780140621846
Release Date: 27 Jul 1995
Average rating: (read by 2 members)

Categories: 19th century fiction , Classic fiction

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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An ending that knocks you out and then kicks you back down when you’re about to get up.

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