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Officer, diplomat, spy, journalist & intermittent genius, Marie Henri Beyle employed more than 200 aliases in the course of his crowded career. His most famous moniker, however, was Stendhal, which he affixed to his greatest work, The Charterhouse of Parma. The author spent a mere seven weeks cranking out this marvel in 1838, setting the fictional equivalent of a land-speed record. To be honest, there are occasional signs of haste, during which he clearly bypassed le mot juste in favor of narrative zing. So what? Stendhal at his sloppiest is still wittier & wiser about human behavior, than just about any writer you could name. No wonder so meticulous a stylist as Paul Valéry was happy to forgive his sins against French grammar: "We should never be finished with Stendhal. I can think of no greater praise than that." The plot of The Charterhouse of Parma suggests a run-of-the-mill potboiler, complete with court intrigue, military derring-do & more romance than you can shake a saber at. But Stendhal had an amazing, pre-Freudian grasp of psychology (at least the Gallic variant). More than most of his contemporaries, he understood the incessant jostling of love, sex, fear & ambition, not to mention our endless capacity for self-deception. No wonder his hero, Fabrizio de Dongo, seems to know everything & nothing about himself. Even under fire at the Battle of Waterloo, the young Fabrizio has a tendency to lose himself in Napoleonic reverie: "Suddenly everyone galloped off. A few moments later Fabrizio saw, 20 paces ahead, a ploughed field that seemed to be strangely in motion; the furrows were filled with water, & the wet ground that formed their crests was exploding into tiny black fragments flung 3 or 4 feet into the air. Fabrizio noticed this odd effect as he passed; then his mind returned to daydreams of the Marshal's glory. He heard a sharp cry beside him: two hussars had fallen, riddled by bullets; & when he turned to look at them, they were already 20 paces behind the escort." The quote above, a famous one, captures something of Stendhal's headlong style. Until now, most English-speaking readers have experienced it via C.K. Scott-Moncrieff's superb 1925 translation. Crammed with life, lust & verbal fireworks, The Charterhouse of Parma demonstrates the real truth of its creator's self-composed epitaph: "He lived. He wrote. He loved."--James Marcus (edited)

La Chartreuse De Parme

"On 1 February and 1 June of every year the clothes of the favored man shall become as they were the third time he wore them.""The Privileges" is a brief collection of the favors Stendhal, not long before his death, would have had a god bestow on him. Translated by Juan LePuen. Genre: miscellanyLength: 1, 700 wordsDate of English translation: 2012.

The Privileges

Premier roman court de l'auteur. Octave de Malivert et Armance de Zohilott s'aiment et se méprennent sur leurs sentiments réciproques jusqu'à ce que la mère d'Octave parvienne à les marier.

Armance

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Le Rouge Et Le Noir: Chronique Du Xixe Siecle

Chef-d'oeuvre de Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir est le roman de la jeunesse. Jeune homme tendre et sensible au désir conquérant, Julien Sorel en est, dans ses aspirations contradictoires, tout le symbole. Au bout du chemin, c'est la clé du bonheur qui lui est promise.

Le rouge et le noir

La seule édition pédagogique de ce court roman méconnu de Stendhal, idéale pour les lycéens. 

Devenue orpheline, Mina, jeune, belle et riche héritière ne veut pas être épousée pour son argent. Elle décide alors de partir pour Paris « dans une sorte d'incognito » ; mais ce séjour lui réservera bien des déconvenues... Lycée 2de et 1re : Le roman et le récit

. Lycée 1re pro : Itinéraires romanesques

 Avec en plus, dans cette édition :

. le texte intégral et des notes de bas de page

. des séances thématiques avec des questionnaires progressifs

. des rubriques Patrimoine et Histoire des arts, pour enrichir la culture des élèves

. un grand nombre de documents iconographiques exploités

. des questions de grammaire, d'orthographe et de vocabulaire

. des encadrés Méthode

. un lexique adapté à l'ouvre.

Le Rose et le Vert - Classiques et Patrimoine

Dans un palais à Rome, l'impétueuse princesse Vanina Vanini tombe sous le charme de Missirilli, un jeune carbonaro qui lutte pour la liberté de l'Italie, et use habilement de son pouvoir de persuasion pour le sauver et le garder près de son coeur.

Vanina vanini

Clés d'analyse de l'oeuvre : L'essentiel sur Stendhal et le contexte historique de l'oeuvre ; Des résumés du Rouge et le Noir, les grands thèmes de l'oeuvre expliqués et des citations incontournables faciles à retenir ; Les thématiques du parcours associé et des citations d'oeuvres complémentaires à utiliser dans vos dissertations. Outils pour le BAC : Méthode de la dissertation expliquée pas à pas ; Trois sujets de dissertation guidés avec des corrigés ; Des aides à la préparation de l'explication linéaire pour l'oral.

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