Ok, Here is where I'll starting discussing book like its done on the online book club sites. Right now I belong to quite a few book clubs and sites. Since I purchased an ereader back in 2010, I have been doing quit a bite of reading. I do not express myself as well as they do on those site, so I'll do it here. I finally have found something to use for notes.

Here is what I'll be reading:

The Red and the Black:

A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century

Stendhal, Catherine Slater

218 Reviews

Oxford University Press, Jul 9, 1998 - 559 pages

In December of 1827, Marie Henri Beyle read a newspaper account of the trial of a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. With this as inspiration, Beyle - under the pen hame of Stendhal - set about writing what was to become one of the great psychological novels of all time, "The Red and the Black." Set in a small provincial French town, and in Paris, the book tells the story of Julien Sorel, a handsome and brilliant young tutor who is both hero and villian. Considered one of literature's most complex characters, Sorel is cold, opportunistic, and uncompromising with others - including his influential mistress - as he seeks to fulfill his lust for power and wealth; yet he is hopelessly victimized by his own romantic soul and by the military and religious forces - the "Red" and the "Black" - that prevail in all of France

About the author (1998)

STENDHAL(Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon's cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842.
BURTON RAFFEL is a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His many translations include Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Chretien de Troyes's Arthurian Romances, Cervantes's Don Quijote, and Balzac's Pere Goriot. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies.
DIANE JOHNSON Is the author of ten novels--most recently Le Mariage and Le Divorce--two books of essays, two biographies, and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's classic film "The Shining," She has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

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