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Stendhal


Born
in Grenoble, France
January 23, 1783

Died
March 23, 1842

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Genre
Fiction

Influences
Jean Racine, William Shakespeare, Molière ...more


Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name 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 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). ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.82 · 117,079 ratings · 6,314 reviews · 2,041 distinct works • Similar authors
The Red and the Black
3.86 avg rating — 84,498 ratings — published 1830 — 608 editions
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The Charterhouse of Parma
3.78 avg rating — 20,188 ratings — published 1839 — 3 editions
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Love
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3.61 avg rating — 2,092 ratings — published 1822 — 274 editions
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Roșu și negru #1
3.94 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1830 — 52 editions
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Armance
3.37 avg rating — 1,107 ratings — published 1827 — 16 editions
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Lucien Leuwen
3.83 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 1894 — 9 editions
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Chroniques Italiennes
3.63 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1839 — 124 editions
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Vanina Vanini
3.24 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 1829 — 2 editions
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La badessa di Castro
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3.28 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1832 — 24 editions
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Roșu și negru #2
3.94 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1830 — 51 editions
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“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
tags: books, literature, reading
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“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
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“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
― Stendhal, Love
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Polls

January 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, 544 pages, 1819
 
  54 votes, 23.5%

 
  45 votes, 19.6%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages, 1842
 
  38 votes, 16.5%

 
  26 votes, 11.3%

 
  24 votes, 10.4%

Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages, 1833
 
  15 votes, 6.5%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages, 1830
 
  13 votes, 5.7%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages, 1859
 
  9 votes, 3.9%

 
  6 votes, 2.6%

230 total votes
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