num_pages: 560
description: More than any other nineteenth-century writer, Stendhal was imbued with the spirit of the French Revolution and its Napoleonic aftermath, and this spirit gives The Charterhouse of Parma , the masterpiece he published in 1839, a freshness and radical originality we normally associate with the great texts of the twentieth century. Remarkable for its detail, its political prescience, and the far-reaching psychological insight with which its characters and their passions are developed, this picture of the intricate intrigues at the court of a small Italian duchy illuminates, through its intense concentration on local events, a whole epoch of European history. (Book Jacket Jacketed)
language: English
title: The Charterhouse of Parma
titlecomplete: The Charterhouse of Parma (Everyman's Library, #102)
characters: Prince Ranuce-Erneste IV, Clelia Conti, Prince Ranuce-Erneste V, Rassi, Fabrice del Dongo, Count Mosca, Ferrante Palla, Gina del Dongo, Fabio Conti
genres: Fiction, France, Italy, French Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 17648
places: France, Italy, Waterloo, Lake Como, Parma
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf