The red and the black
Subtitle: a chronicle of the nineteenth century
By: Stendhal ; edited and translated with notes by Catherine Slater ; with an introduction by Roger Pearson.
Contributors: Slater, Catherine.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9780199539253
Subjects: Ambition -- Fiction; Church and state -- Fiction; Young men -- France -- Fiction; France -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Rouge et le noir.
Description: The son of a carpenter, Julian Sorel is inspired by the writings of Napoleon to conquer the heights of society. His initial plan to work his way up through the church is, however, thwarted when he is forced to accept employment as a tutor--and this rash social entrepreneur certainly has not considered the dangers of falling in love. Stendhal's novel is an amusing and piquant study of hypocrisy and free will in post-Napoleonic France.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the French.