The Red and the Black

A new edition of Stendhal's classic 1830 historical epic, The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir). The Red and the Black is the story of the life and loves, triumphs and failures of Julien Sorel, an intelligent and ambitious son of a poor carpenter, who dreams of someday conquering the world with the power of his intellect and eventually gets wrapped up in the events leading up to the July Revolution of 1830, as he becomes the pawn of the wealthy and powerful. The Red and the Black is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential novels of all time, as one of the first psychological novels, with Stendhal revolutionizing the novel by portraying the feelings, inner thoughts, and interior monologues of his characters. This edition is based on the translation by Horace B. Samuel (1883-1950) published in the United States by E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1916.<br/><br/>Stendhal is the pen-name of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 – 1842), a 19th-century French writer and novelist, best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). Stendhal is considered by many scholars to the "father" of the psychological novel, being one of the first novelists to closely analyze and portray his characters' psychologies and as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.