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Stendhal
(Translator: C K Scott Moncrieff)

Published: 1928
Categorie(s): Fiction, Romance
Source: http://gutenberg.net.au

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About Stendhal:
Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of the realism in his two novels Le
Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de
Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). Source: Wikipedia
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• The Red and the Black (1830)
• The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
• Vanina Vanini (1839)
• The Duchess of Palliano (1839)
• Vittoria Accoramboni (1839)
• The Cenci (1839)
• The Abbess of Castro (1839)
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To RICHARD ALDINGTON C. K. S. M.

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A woman of character, who has only a vague idea of what constitutes literary merit, has asked my unworthy self to correct the style of this novel.
I am far from sharing certain political sentiments which seem to be blended with the narrative; so much I am obliged to explain to the reader.
The talented author and I hold opposite views upon many subjects; but we have an equal horror of what are called applications. In London we find highly sensational novels: Grey, Almack's, High Life, Matilda and the like, which require a key. They are very good-natured caricatures of persons whom the accidents of birth or fortune have placed in an enviable position. This is a kind of literary merit for which we have no desire. The author has not since l8l4 climbed the stair of the Tuileries; such is her pride that she does not know even the names of the persons who have doubtless made themselves conspicuous in a certain class of society.
But she has brought