TY - BOOK AU - Stendhal AU - Samuel,Horace Barnett TI - The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 AV - PQ PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Bildungsromans KW - France -- Fiction KW - Young men -- France -- Fiction KW - Ambition -- Fiction KW - Church and state -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black; Release date is 2014-01-24; Maria Notarangelo and Marc D’Hooghe; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830" by Stendhal is a psychological novel published in 1830. It follows Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man from humble origins who attempts to climb France's rigid social hierarchy through talent, cunning, and deception. Navigating between church and aristocracy during the Bourbon Restoration, Julien engages in dangerous love affairs and political intrigue while confronting the hypocrisy of French society. This chronicle satirizes the materialism of the era, tracing how passion and ambition collide with class barriers in a world hostile to merit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44747 ER -