The Red & The Black
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The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great realist novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration. Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimilitude the moral and morose France of 1830. However moral and morose his novel is definitely not. Ironic, fast-moving, entertaining and incisive in its social criticism, it is a novel of ambition and passion, of indignation and
Author:
STENDHAL
Cover:
Мягкая обложка
Language:
ENG
Number of pages:
576
Publisher:
Wordsworth
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