Stendhal

La Chartreuse de Parme est un roman historique écrit par Stendhal en 1839. Il raconte l'histoire de Fabrice del Dongo, un jeune noble italien qui vit pendant les révolutions napoléoniennes. Il est déterminé à faire carrière dans l'armée et à vivre des aventures passionnantes, mais il est confronté à des obstacles tels que la politique, la guerre et l'amour. Il éprouve des sentiments passionnés pour Clélia Conti, une jeune femme belle...

This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the Shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic...

This collection includes "Recollections of an Italian Gentleman," "The Jew," "The Chest and the Ghost," and "Philibert Lescale." All of the stories are newly translated, and two of them are appearing in English for what is perhaps the first time.Genre: short storiesLength: 26,000 wordsDate of English translation: 2012

One of the world's greatest writers-in love with a great city. In a fascinating travel book, Stendhal carries the reader along with him on a grand tour of Rome. Described with all the wit and sensitivity of a master storyteller, incomparable Rome comes breathtakingly alive. No one but the author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma could capture the city's spell so magically: the Colosseum, the Pantheon, St. Peter's, the Forum, fountains,...

Henri-Marie Beyle, better known as Stendhal (Grenoble, January 23, 1783 – Paris, March 23, 1842), was a French writer renowned for his keen analysis of the feelings of his characters. His first masterpiece, "The Red and the Black," was published in 1830. It is an analytical chronicle of French society during the Restoration period, in which Stendhal depicted the ambitions and contradictions of his time, emphasizing the psychological analysis of...

Le mélodrame nous a montré si souvent les brigands italiens du seizième siècle, et tant de gens en ont parlé sans les connaître, que nous en avons maintenant les idées les plus fausses. On peut dire en général que ces brigands furent l'opposition contre les gouvernements atroces qui, en Italie, succédèrent aux républiques du moyen âge. Le nouveau tyran fut d'ordinaire le citoyen le plus riche de la défunte république, et, pour séduire...

"The fact is, gentlemen, that I no longer loved anything but money. Ah! How I loved it!"Stendhal's Filippo Ebreo, narrator of a story first published in 1855, recalls his past as a peddler in Venice and a follower of the coalition armies invading France in the wake of Napoleon's defeat.Genre: short storyDate of English translation: 2012

"Recollections of an Italian Gentleman" is a tale of a young man turned collaborator in a Rome occupied by French troops and then annexed to Napoleon's empire. The young collaborator recalls the events that marked these turbulent days, among them the abduction of the Pope by the French--His Holiness fiddled with his snuffbox during the entire operation--and the trial and execution of the notorious bandit Spatolino.Genre: novellaLength: 10,900 wordsDate...

Oscar Wilde, uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XIX, dejó una marca duradera en la literatura y el pensamiento contemporáneo. Sus obras exploran temas como la moralidad, la belleza, el amor y la hipocresía de la sociedad victoriana y su agudo ingenio y su habilidad para crear diálogos brillantes le valieron un lugar destacado en la literatura británica. Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran El Retrato de Dorian Gray, una...

Un classique de la littérature française du XIXe siècle. Le roman suivi de son analyse et de compléments historiques. Découvrez ou redécouvrez ce classique dans une nouvelle édition, accompagnée d'une analyse. EXTRAIT C'était par un beau jour d'automne que M. de Rênal se promenait sur le Cours de la Fidélité, donnant le bras à sa femme. Tout en écoutant son mari qui parlait d'un air grave, l'oeil de Mme de Rênal suivait avec inquiétude...