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The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

First published: 1839
Pages: 451

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A Study of M. Beyle, by Honoré De Balzac — part 1
55:22
A Study of M. Beyle, by Honoré De Balzac — part 2
42:05
A Study of M. Beyle, by Honoré De Balzac — part 3
36:24
Beyle’s Reply to Balzac
14:53
To the Reader
3:37
Chapter 1
31:35
Chapter 2
45:35
Chapter 3
33:20
Chapter 4
39:32
Chapter 5
46:21
Chapter 6 — part 1
43:03
Chapter 6 — part 2
44:14
Chapter 7
42:33
Chapter 8
34:31
Chapter 9
19:44
Chapter 10
15:12
Chapter 11
49:13
Chapter 12
31:10
Chapter 13
53:51
Chapter 14
43:28
Chapter 15
36:36
Chapter 16
35:35
Chapter 17
30:20
Chapter 18
41:38
Chapter 19
37:06
Chapter 20
52:26
Chapter 21
44:04
Chapter 22
39:23
Chapter 23
47:43
Chapter 24
40:40
Chapter 25
41:35
Chapter 26
36:01
Chapter 27
32:18
Chapter 28
36:43
Appendix
7:47
Fragment 1: Birague's narrative
13:05
Fragment 2: Il Conte Zorafi, The Prince’s “Press”
4:44

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Stendhal reportedly dictated this sweeping novel in a matter of weeks in 1839, and its restless energy shows on every page. Young Fabrice del Dongo, an Italian nobleman raised on dreams of Napoleon, runs off to Waterloo and wanders the battlefield without ever quite understanding the battle around him. Back in Italy he is drawn into the poisonous intrigues of the court of Parma, protected and manipulated by his passionate aunt Gina and her lover, the shrewd Count Mosca. Love, imprisonment in a high tower, and endless political scheming carry Fabrice toward an unlikely romance and a reckoning. Balzac praised it as one of the finest novels of its age, and its portrait of ambition and desire still feels startlingly modern. This free PDF and EPUB edition uses C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation.

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Stendhal

Stendhal, born Henri Marie Beyle in Grenoble in 1783, turned experience of Napoleonic Europe and a lasting attachment to Italy into sharply observed fiction. He followed military campaigns as a government official, later served as French consul at Civitavecchia, and defended Romantic literature in essays as well as novels.