Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century by Stendhal, Margaret R.B. Shaw

Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century

Stendhal, Margaret R.B. Shaw

512 pages • first pub 1830 (editions)

fiction classics dark mysterious tense slow-paced
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Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle...

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