Delphi Collected Works of Stendhal (Illustrated)

Stendhal

Jan 2014 · Series Four Book 14 · Delphi Classics

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2014

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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was an early nineteenth century French novelist. His masterworks ‘The Red and the Black’ and ‘The Charterhouse of Parma’ are revered for their acute analysis of the characters’ psychology, establishing Stendhal as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism. This eBook presents the collected works of Stendhal, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Stendhal’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* All of the finished novels, with individual contents tables

* A rare translation of the unfinished novel ‘Lucien Leuwen’ – first time in digital print

* Multiple translations of ‘The Red and the Black’ and ‘The Charterhouse of Parma’

* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Includes Stendhal’s seminal treatise ‘On Love’

* The detailed biography on the composer Rossini, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing

* Features two biographies on Stendhal

* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

* UPDATED with a rare translation of the unfinished novel ‘Lucien Leuwen’, an extra biography, more translations and improved texts

CONTENTS:

The Novels

Armance (1827)

The Red and the Black — Samuel Translation (1830)

The Red and the Black — Moncrieff Translation (1830)

Lucien Leuwen (1835)

The Charterhouse of Parma — Loyd Translation (1839)

The Charterhouse of Parma — Moncrieff Translation (1839)

The Shorter Fiction

Vanina Vanini (1829)

The Abbess of Castro (1832)

The Cenci (1837)

Vittoria Accoramboni (1837)

The Duchess of Palliano (1837)

The Non-Fiction

On Love (1822)

A Life of Rossini (1823)

The Biographies

Introduction to Stendhal (1913) by Horace B. Samuel

Brief Life of Stendhal (1915) by Philip Sidney Woolf

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