The Red and The Black
Series: Wordsworth classicsPublication details: Ware; Wordsworth Editions; 2015Description: 301 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9781840225839
- 843.7
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi In Store | 843.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | Book Bazaar | PKLC019301 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Adult Fiction | 843.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | Sold | PKLC014048 |
The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration. Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimilitude the 'moral and morose' France of 1830. However 'moral and morose' his novel is definitely not. Ironic, fast-moving, entertaining and incisive in its social criticism, it is a novel of ambition and passion, of indignation and tenderness, of polemic and poetry, which speaks to us today, as clearly as it did to the author's contemporaries, of the heights, depths and idiocies of which our human nature is capable or culpable.
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