The Red and the Black by Stendhal Deluxe Edition Book, Published by Franklin Library

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Beautiful Deluxe Edition by The Franklin Press of the great classic The Red and The Black by Stendhal. Originally published … Read more Beautiful Deluxe Edition by The Franklin Press of the great classic The Red and The Black by Stendhal. Originally published in 1830. Book measures 9-1/4" X 6" X 1-1/4" Illustrated, 496 Pages. Decorative front and end pages. Decoratively Bound in Leather with a Raised Ribbed spine, embossed in gold, with gold edged paper. Wonderful near pristine copy. Please see all photographs provided for your inspection as to the condition.

This edition was published by The Franklin Press in 1980's. (b1)
Le Rouge et le Noir (French pronunciation: ​meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy. He ultimately allows his passions to betray him.

The novel's full title, Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe siècle (The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century), indicates its twofold literary purpose as both a psychological portrait of the romantic protagonist, Julien Sorel, and an analytic, sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration (1814–30). In English, Le Rouge et le Noir is variously translated as Red and Black, Scarlet and Black, and The Red and the Black, without the subtitle.

The title is taken to refer to the tension between the clerical (black) and secular (red) interests of the protagonist, but this interpretation is but one of many.

Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal was a 19th-century French writer. 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), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. See less