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On Love, philosophical discourse by Stendhal, published in 1822 as De l'amour. The work was prompted by Stendhal's hopeless love for Métilde Dembowski. The first part of On Love is an analysis of love, in which Stendhal lists four kinds of love: physical love, purely sexual in scope; love as a social game, removed from passion; vanity love, a type necessary for high social standing; and passion, the finest form of love, which the author idealized and to which he devotes most of his attention. Stendhal also outlines seven progressive stages of love, from admiration to "crystallization," or the process by which the lover attributes all types of perfection to the beloved. In the second part of the work Stendhal presents his views, considered radical at the time, against marriage and favouring the full education and moral liberty of women.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length12 hrs 10 mins
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Publish dateJan 13, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTORY PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION
2PREFACE[1]
3PREFACE[1]
4PREFACE[1]
5PREFACE[1]
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6BOOK I
7CHAPTER I OF LOVE
8CHAPTER II OF THE BIRTH OF LOVE
9CHAPTER III OF HOPE
10CHAPTER IV
11CHAPTER V
12CHAPTER VI THE CRYSTALS OF SALZBURG
13CHAPTER VII DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BIRTH OF LOVE IN THE TWO SEXES
14CHAPTER VIII
15CHAPTER IX
16CHAPTER X
17CHAPTER XI
18CHAPTER XII FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF CRYSTALLISATION
19CHAPTER XIII OF THE FIRST STEP; OF THE FASHIONABLE WORLD; OF MISFORTUNES
20CHAPTER XIV
21CHAPTER XV
22CHAPTER XVI
23CHAPTER XVII BEAUTY DETHRONED BY LOVE
24CHAPTER XVIII LIMITATIONS OF BEAUTY
25CHAPTER XIX LIMITATIONS OF BEAUTY—(continued)
26CHAPTER XX
27CHAPTER XXI LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
28CHAPTER XXII OF INFATUATION
29CHAPTER XXIII THE THUNDERBOLT FROM THE BLUE(11)
30CHAPTER XXIV VOYAGE IN AN UNKNOWN LAND
31CHAPTER XXV THE INTRODUCTION
32CHAPTER XXVI OF MODESTY
33CHAPTER XXVII THE GLANCE
34CHAPTER XXVIII OF FEMININE PRIDE
35CHAPTER XXIX OF WOMEN'S COURAGE
36CHAPTER XXX A PECULIAR AND MOURNFUL SPECTACLE
37CHAPTER XXXI EXTRACT FROM THE DIARY OF SALVIATI
38CHAPTER XXXII OF INTIMATE INTERCOURSE
39CHAPTER XXXIII
40CHAPTER XXXIV OF CONFIDENCES
41CHAPTER XXXV OF JEALOUSY
42CHAPTER XXXVI OF JEALOUSY—(continued)
43CHAPTER XXXVII ROXANA
44CHAPTER XXXVIII OF SELF-ESTEEM PIQUED[1]
45CHAPTER XXXIX OF QUARRELSOME LOVE
46CHAPTER XXXIX (Part II) REMEDIES AGAINST LOVE
47CHAPTER XXXIX (Part III)
48BOOK II
49CHAPTER XL
50CHAPTER XLI OF NATIONS WITH REGARD TO LOVE. FRANCE
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