The Charterhouse of Parma

A new edition of Stendhal's classic 1839 novel, The Charterhouse of Parma. Set in the Napoleonic era, it tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death. The book begins with the French army sweeping through Lombardy, and our young protagonist gets swept up in the idealism of the era, first in a quest to join and follow Napoleon himself and later in romantic misadventures that lead him into a violent scheme. The Charterhouse of Parma is considered to be one of Stendhal's finest works and even one of the greatest French language novels of all time, it's stark realism and psychological sensitivity having a profound influence on Leo Tolstoy and War and Peace. This edition features the popular 1925 translation by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930).<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.