La Chartreuse de Parme est un roman historique écrit par Stendhal en 1839. Il raconte l'histoire de Fabrice del Dongo, un jeune noble italien qui vit pendant les révolutions napoléoniennes. Il est déterminé à faire carrière dans l'armée et à vivre des aventures passionnantes, mais il est confronté à des obstacles tels que la politique, la guerre et l'amour. Il éprouve des sentiments passionnés pour Clélia Conti, une jeune femme belle...

Julien Sorel, the handsome, ambitious son of a country carpenter in nineteenth-century France, understands that the only way to insinuate himself into Parisian society is through hypocrisy--a skill at which he excels until scandal brings his social climbing to a tragic end.

Henri-Marie Beyle, better known as Stendhal (Grenoble, January 23, 1783 – Paris, March 23, 1842), was a French writer renowned for his keen analysis of the feelings of his characters. His first masterpiece, "The Red and the Black," was published in 1830. It is an analytical chronicle of French society during the Restoration period, in which Stendhal depicted the ambitions and contradictions of his time, emphasizing the psychological analysis of...

Considerada por escritores como Paul Léautaud y André Gide una obra maestra del género memorialístico, "Recuerdos de egotismo" nos devuelve al París de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, donde el joven Henri Beyle, antes de ser "Stendhal", intenta encontrar su sitio como novelista y amante. Literatos de salón, aristócratas y gacetilleros desfilan por estas páginas únicas de la literatura universal. Con traducción de José Luis Arántegui recuperamos...

This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the Shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic...

"The fact is, gentlemen, that I no longer loved anything but money. Ah! How I loved it!"Stendhal's Filippo Ebreo, narrator of a story first published in 1855, recalls his past as a peddler in Venice and a follower of the coalition armies invading France in the wake of Napoleon's defeat.Genre: short storyDate of English translation: 2012

Le don Juan de Molière est galant sans doute, mais avant tout il est homme de bonne compagnie; avant de se livrer au penchant irrésistible qui l'entraîne vers les jolies femmes, il tient à se conformer à un certain modèle idéal, il veut être l'homme qui serait souverainement admiré à la cour d'un jeune roi galant et spirituel.

One of the world's greatest writers-in love with a great city. In a fascinating travel book, Stendhal carries the reader along with him on a grand tour of Rome. Described with all the wit and sensitivity of a master storyteller, incomparable Rome comes breathtakingly alive. No one but the author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma could capture the city's spell so magically: the Colosseum, the Pantheon, St. Peter's, the Forum, fountains,...

Read in French"The Philter" is a dual-language edition of "Le Philtre," Stendhal's brief tale of a young Spanish woman's inexplicable passion for a circus rider from Naples. Both the original French tale and the newly translated English version are hyperlinked to facilitate swift navigation from one language to the other.Genre: short storyLanguages: French and EnglishDate of English translation: 2012

Le mélodrame nous a montré si souvent les brigands italiens du seizième siècle, et tant de gens en ont parlé sans les connaître, que nous en avons maintenant les idées les plus fausses. On peut dire en général que ces brigands furent l'opposition contre les gouvernements atroces qui, en Italie, succédèrent aux républiques du moyen âge. Le nouveau tyran fut d'ordinaire le citoyen le plus riche de la défunte république, et, pour séduire...