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Written in just fifty-two days in the year 1839, "The Charterhouse of Parma" has since become known as Stendhal's finest work. Evidence of haste is infrequently apparent in this remarkable story, which follows the eventful life of the young Italian nobleman Fabrizio del Dongo. From his childhood in the family castle by Lake Como to the battlefields of Waterloo, Fabrizio proves himself charmingly headstrong and painfully naïve. Upon returning injured...
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Everyman's library volume no. 38
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Subtitled A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century, Scarlet and Black is a tale of murder, betrayal and seduction, but also a brilliant and subtle psychological study which Andre Gide ranked among the world's ten greatest novels.