“To the happy few.” — Stendhal, dedication in The Charterhouse of Parma Part 1: Early Life and Napoleon’s War The novel opens with Fabrizio del Dongo, a young […]
French literature
The Red and the Black
“The truth, the harsh truth.” — Stendhal, The Red and the Black The Red and the Black follows Julien Sorel, a young, ambitious man from a provincial French […]