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Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of EuropeanContinue
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lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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Genius Con Brio
We know a great deal about Stendhal’s methods and habits as a writer, for he was an irrepressible diarist. He left not only journals that cover the first half of his life but also hundreds of notes and comments jotted down on manuscripts, on proofs, ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 560 Pages
- Edition: Modern Library Paperback Ed
- ISBN-10: 0679783180
- ISBN-13: 9780679783183
- Publisher: Modern Library
- Pub date: Sep 12, 2000
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780679783183 | Paperback | $11.95 | $8.60 | bn.com |
| $11.95 | $10.98 | The Book Depository | ||
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Edward Sighamony 
Gide’s Cuttlefish
The best thing on Stendhal in English is an essay by Lytton Strachey in which he remarks the way the author denovelises the novel while skilfully retaining all its traditional apparatus. Stendhal’s imagination is a kind of parody of Scott’s: his sens ... (read full critics)