The Red and the Black, Volume I
Author(s): Stendhal, Horace B. Samuel
Genre(s): General Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers
Narrators: Sandra Luna, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Derrick Coetzee, Kirsty Leishman, Sganatra81, Nicole Lee, Gail Timmerman Vaughan, Martin Geeson
Number of Chapters: 31
Length: 9 hours and 12 minutes
Language: English
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't seem to fit a defined genre. Some say he's a Romantic, others that he's a Modernist and that Le Rouge et Le Noir is the first modern novel. On one point they are all agreed: the novel is a masterpiece that shows a young theology student - Julien Sorel - intelligent, handsome and who is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins. Stendhal presents the reader with a satirical plot that will involve you in passions, intrigues, last-minute reversals and, mostly, the hypocrisy by which society operates. (Summary by sailormoon)