Scarlet And Black (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by Stendhal (Author), Stendhal (Author), C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Jonathan Keates (Introduction)

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $12.75

  In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval.

• Used

  Paperback
  1969

  $3.73

  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.