Stendhal - Le Rouge et le Noir - 1928

Stendhal – Le Rouge et le Noir

The present work is a French edition of the novel "Le Rouge et le Noir" by Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal). The present exemplar was published by Librairie Garnier Frères in Paris and, according to the printer's mark, printed on 2 April 1928 by Lahure et Tanti in Chartres. Although there is no first edition, it is a high-quality classic edition with a decorative library binding, good preservation, and high literary-historical significance.

Bibliographic data

Author: Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)
Title: Le Rouge et le Noir – Chronique du XIXe siècle
Edition: Édition complète revue et corrigée
Publisher: Librairie Garnier Frères, Paris
Printing: Imprimerie Lahure et Tanti, Chartres
Printer's mark: 2 April 1928

The exemplar possesses a high cultural-historical significance as an edition of one of the most important French novels.

Marie-Henri Beyle was born on 23 January 1783 in Grenoble. Under the pseudonym Stendhal, he developed into one of the most influential French writers of the 19th century. Stendhal is today regarded as a precursor of the psychological novel. His characters possess an inner depth that was extraordinary for the time. Many literary scholars see in him a forerunner of literary realism and of modern narrative technique.