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"The Red and the Black" is a novel by Stendhal published in French in 1830 as "Le Rouge et le noir". It is generally considered the author’s major work and one of the greatest 19th-century novels.
"The Red and the Black" is a fictional depiction of French society in the 1820’s, two decades after the French Revolution and its ensuing Terror. The plot was based on Stendhal’s personal experiences, on legal documents, and on historical accounts. Specifically, the story was prompted by a real-life case reported in a French newspaper over four days in late December, 1827. The story concerned Antoine Berthier, a twenty-five-year-old tutor and former theological student who a few months before had murdered a woman whose children he had tutored; the murder took place in a church during Mass. This case was the seed for Stendhal’s novel.
Stendhal portrays a society fraught with materialism and hypocrisy at all levels. The peasants know how to ingratiate themselves with the rural bourgeoisie in order to profit; the bourgeoisie are in constant competition to outdo each other in status, as is the Parisian aristocracy. Even the Catholic Church is not exempt from this materialism and hypocrisy. Stendhal’s protagonist, Julien Sorel, is a young peasant who is ill suited to work in his father’s sawmill in the provincial town of Verrières. Julien is an opportunist intent on rising in society. He hates his peasant class and his status as a member of that class; he idolizes Napoleon, but Napoleonic France is dead, and rather than get ahead through the military (the “red”), Julien recognizes the Church (the “black”) as the means of rising beyond his station. Having learned Latin from the Abbé Chélan, he finds first opportunity when Abbé Chélan recommends him as a tutor for the children of the Rênals...
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Historical Fiction
Length20 hrs 47 mins
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Publish dateMay 14, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK ONE
2Chapter 1. A Small Town
3Chapter 2. A Mayor
4Chapter 3. The Bread Of The Poor
5Chapter 4. Father and Son
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6Chapter 5. Driving a Bargain
7Chapter 6. Dullness
8Chapter 7. Elective Affinities
9Chapter 8. Minor Events
10Chapter 9. An Evening in the Country
11Chapter 10. A Large Heart and a Small Fortune
12Chapter 11. Night Thoughts
13Chapter 12. A Journey
14Chapter 13. Open-Work Stockings
15Chapter 14. The English Scissors
16Chapter 15. Cock-Crow
17Chapter 16. The Day After
18Chapter 17. The Principal Deputy
19Chapter 18. A King At Verrieres
20Chapter 19. To Think Is To Be Full Of Sorrow
21Chapter 20. The Anonymous Letters
22Chapter 21. Conversation With A Lord And Master
23Chapter 22. Manners And Customs In 1830
24Chapter 23. The Sorrows Of An Official
25Chapter 24. A Capital
26Chapter 25. The Seminary
27Chapter 26. The World, Or What The Rich Lack
28Chapter 27. First Experience Of Life
29Chapter 28. A Procession
30Chapter 29. The First Step
31Chapter 30. Ambition
32BOOK TWO
33Chapter 1. Country Pleasures
34Chapter 2. First Appearance In Society
35Chapter 3. First Steps
36Chapter 4. The Hotel De La Mole
37Chapter 5. Sensibility And A Pious Lady
38Chapter 6. Pronunciation
39Chapter 7. An Attack Of Gout
40Chapter 8. What Is The Decoration That Confers Distinction?
41Chapter 9. The Ball
42Chapter 10. Queen Marguerite
43Chapter 11. The Tyranny Of A Girl
44Chapter 12. Another Danton
45Chapter 13. A Plot
46Chapter 14. A Girl’s Thoughts
47Chapter 15. Is It A Plot?
48Chapter 16. One o’Clock In The Morning
49Chapter 17. An Old Sword
50Chapter 18. Painful Moments
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