Stendhal, C.K. Scott Moncrieff
The Charterhouse of Parma
More than any other nineteenth-century writer, Stendhal was imbued with the spirit of the French Revolution and its Napoleonic aftermath, and this spirit gives The Charterhouse of Parma, the masterpiece he published in 1839, a freshness and radical originality we normally associate with the great texts of the twentieth century. Remarkable for its detail, its political prescience, and the far-reaching psychological insight with which its characters and their passions are developed, this picture of the intricate intrigues at the court of a small Italian duchy illuminates, through its intense concentration on local events, a whole epoch of European history.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
- Series
- Everyman's Library
- ISBN
- 0679417435 / 9780679417439
- Pages
- 560
- Weight
- 20.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.22 x 1.28 in.
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