The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830

INTRODUCTION

Some slight sketch of the life and character of Stendhal is particularly necessary to an understanding of _Le Rouge et Le Noir_ (_The Red and the Black_) not so much as being the formal stuffing of which introductions are made, but because the book as a book stands in the most intimate relation to the author's life and character. The hero, Julien, is no doubt, view...