num_pages: 530
description: This book has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the ninteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820's, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration.
language: English
title: The Red And The Black
titlecomplete: The Red And The Black
characters: Marquis de la Mole, Fouqué, Elisa, Julien Sorel, Chélan, Pirard, Valenod, Madame de Rênal, Mathilde de la Mole
genres: Literature, Novels, French Literature, 19th Century, Romance, Classics, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 72566
places: Verrières, Paris, Besançon, Paris, France
publisher: Wordsworth Editions