Red and Black -- Popular Edition of World Classics

Author: Stendhal
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book is the masterpiece of the outstanding French critical realist writer Stendhal in the 19th century. It narrates the brief life story of Julien Sorel, the son of a carpenter, reflecting the upper-class life and class contradictions in France during the 1920s. It condemns the reactionary and tyrannical behavior of the nobility and clergy, as well as the vulgarity and debasement of the bourgeoisie in French society at the time.