Red and Black - The Stairway to the English Freedom Realm (6) (5000-word Bedside English Learning Reader) (English-Chinese Contrastive Translation)

Author: Original Author (French) Stendhal
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Julien Sorel comes from a peasant family. He is physically frail but talented and ambitious. Julien realizes that only through the church can he enter high society. Due to his proficiency in Latin and the Bible, he is hired as a tutor for the children of the mayor of Verrières, M. de Rênal; during this time, he becomes the lover of Mme. de Rênal. After the affair is exposed, he is forced to leave Verrières and study theology at the seminary in Besan?on. Later, recommended by Father Pirard, he goes to the marquis's house as the secretary of Marquis de La Mole and becomes the lover of the marquis's daughter, Mathilde. Just as he is about to marry the marquis's daughter and dreams of political success, a letter from the mayor's wife shatters everything. In despair, he is sent to the guillotine, ending his short life. This book is the masterpiece of the outstanding French critical realist writer of the 19th century, Stendhal. It narrates the life 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.