“A good book is an event in my life.”
S
Stendhal
1783 – 1842
12
Books
6
Quotes
Stendhal was the pseudonym of the 19th-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels *Le Rouge et le Noir* (The Red and the Black, 1830) and *La Chartreuse de Parme* (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).
Bibliography
Books by Stendhal
Scarlet and Black (Everyman's Library, #38)
1991
The Red and the Black
1984
Oeuvres intimes
1982
Die Kartause von Parma
1989
La Chartreuse de Parme
1993
The Red and the Black A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
2001
Le Rouge Et Le Noir
1947
Armance (Folio (Gallimard))
1975
The Red and the Black
2004
Memoirs of an Egotist (Hesperus Classics)
2003
Lucien Leuwen
2002
To the Happy Few Stendhal's Letters
1986
Memorable Words
Quotes by Stendhal
“A good book is an event in my life.”
“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”
“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
“Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mir...”
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