Stendhal

1914 · ref. 58504 — New York NY: E. P. Dutton & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. Very Good-: shows moderate wear to the extremities with the fabric of the grey-toned cloth-covered boards just starting wear through to expose the underlying board at the corner tips; a touch of crimp to the heel of the backstrip - less to the head of same; rubbing to the panels and some faint consequent soiling to the greyish background field; the pages have tanned somewhat due to aging and faint foxing is noticeable at the top and fore-edges and endpapers; faint blueish dampstaining along the rear hinge; the binding is square and perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names dates addresses notations inscriptions stamps plates or labels. A handsome copy structurally sound and tightly bound showing moderate wear and minor cosmetic imperfections. A lovely little copy a pleasure to hold in the hand. NOT a Remainder Book-Club or Ex-Library. Small 8vo 7.75 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches . Translated and with an Introduction by Horace B. Samuel. Language: English. Weight: 19.5 ounces. Greyish cloth over boards with red and black titles at the backstrip. Title page states 1914. Hardcover lacks DJ if indeed it ever possessed one. Le Rouge et le Noir The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent hard work deception and hypocrisy. He ultimately allows his passions to betray him. The novel's full title points to a twofold literary purpose as both a psychological portrait of the romantic protagonist Julien Sorel and an analytic sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration. André Gide stated that The Red and the Black was a novel ahead of its time that it was a novel for readers in the 20th century. In Stendhal's time prose novels included dialogue and descriptions from omniscient narrator; Stendhal's great contribution to literary technique was the describing of the psychologies emotions thoughts and interior monologues of the characters. As a result he is considered the creator of the modern psychological novel. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; xvi 527 pages . E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover