by Margaret Shaw (Author), Margaret Shaw (Author)
It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circumstances and wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy. On the road to the surprising crime he commits (out of passion, principle or insanity), he turns into Stendhal's greatest and most completely human creation.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: Reprint.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jul 1969
ISBN 10: 0140440305
ISBN 13: 9780140440300