1830The Red and the Black
Stendhal
The carpenter's son Julien Sorel, brilliant, proud and ambitious in a France where the army's red is closed to him and only the church's black offers a poor man a ladder, climbs through hypocrisy and seduction toward a ruin of his own making. Stendhal maps a real Restoration France: the provincial town of Verrières in the Franche-Comté, the seminary at Besançon, and the aristocratic Paris where Julien's rise and fall play out.
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