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Stendhal


Born
in Grenoble, France
January 23, 1783

Died
March 23, 1842

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Genre
Fiction

Influences
Jean Racine, William Shakespeare, Molière ...more


Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. 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). ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 111,824 ratings · 5,736 reviews · 1,923 distinct works • Similar authors
The Red and the Black
3.86 avg rating — 80,962 ratings — published 1830 — 89 editions
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The Charterhouse of Parma
3.79 avg rating — 19,463 ratings — published 1839 — 1363 editions
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Love
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3.63 avg rating — 1,993 ratings — published 1822 — 261 editions
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Roșu și negru #1
3.95 avg rating — 943 ratings — published 1830 — 53 editions
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Armance
3.38 avg rating — 1,058 ratings — published 1827 — 3 editions
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Lucien Leuwen
3.84 avg rating — 594 ratings — published 1894 — 90 editions
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Chroniques Italiennes
3.63 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 1839 — 124 editions
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Vanina Vanini
3.24 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 1829 — 83 editions
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Roșu și negru #2
3.96 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 1830 — 53 editions
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The Abbess of Castro (The A...
3.27 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1832 — 26 editions
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“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
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“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
― Stendhal, Love
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Deliliğe Övgü - Erasmus 1511, 222 sayfa
 
  30 votes 45.5%

 
  13 votes 19.7%

Parma Manastırı - Stendhal 1839, 562 sayfa
 
  11 votes 16.7%

Kırmızı Zambak - Anatole France 1894, 276 sayfa
 
  7 votes 10.6%

 
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