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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1950
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Lucien Leuwen Book One: The Green Huntsman

    Attractive, clever, a cavalry officer and very rich, young Leuwen had everything necessary for happiness and successâ€"â€"everything except belief in himself and the social order of his time. It is the period of King Louis-Philippe, when an induced c...

  • Lucien Leuwen, Book Two: The Telegraph

    The Telegraph takes up from where The Green Huntsman left off with the career of Lucien Leuwen, the fashionable young cavalry officer with “republican” leanings but aristocratic tastes. When his father, an influential banker, places him in a gove...

  • The Scarlet and the Black

    It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circu...

  • Penguin Classics Love

    Drawing on history, literature, and his own experience of unrequited passion, Love is a thinly disguised picture of the author's innermost feelings.

    Stendahl's obsession with Mathilde Viscontini Dembowski is at the heart of this book. For her...

  • Pink and the Green; Followed By, Mina de Vanghel

  • Three Italian Chronicles

    Book annotation not available for this title...Title: .Three Italian Chronicles..Author: .Stendhal/ Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (TRN)..Publisher: .W W Norton & Co Inc..Publication Date: .1991/03/01..Number of Pages: ...Binding Type: .PAPERBACK..Library of...

  • Scarlet And Black

  • The Red and the Black

    A psychological portrait of the romantic protagonist, Julien Sorel, and an analytic, sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration....

  • Two Stories/Deux Nouvelles

    In writing these two ardently romantic and turbulent tales, Stendhal delved deep into old Italian narratives and into his own impassioned heart. Â"Vanina Vanini” and Â"L’abbesse de Castro” abound in the qualities for which the French author rem...



  • Penguin Great Loves Cures For Love

  • Memoirs of Egotism

    Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author’s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal’s intended autobiography. Along with Journals of Italy, these...

  • The Charterhouse of Parma

    The story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death, including his service in the Napoleonic Army....

  • Travels in the South of France

    Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles, peppered with personal digressions, anecdotes and cultural musings. The book provides an illuminating perspective...

  • The Chest and the Ghost

    The leathery and slender chief of police don Blas Bustos y Mosquera has a handsome young nobleman, don Fernando, imprisoned for the crime of appearing before him with a fresh complexion and a cool demeanor. Don Fernando's fiancée comes to plead his ...

  • Four Stories

    This collection includes "Recollections of an Italian Gentleman," "The Jew," "The Chest and the Ghost," and "Philibert Lescale." All of the stories are newly translated, and two of them are appearing in English...

  • The Jew

    "Not having anything to read, I write. It's the same kind of pleasure, only more intense."A new English translation (perhaps the first) of a short story composed on 14 and 15 January 1831 in Trieste and first published in French in 1855....

  • Recollections of an Italian Gentleman

    "Recollections of an Italian Gentleman" is a tale of a young man turned collaborator in a Rome occupied by French troops and then annexed to Napoleon's empire. The young collaborator recalls the events that marked these turbulent days,...

  • The Philter

    "The Philter" is a dual-language edition of "Le Philtre," Stendhal's brief tale of a young Spanish woman's inexplicable passion for a circus rider from Naples. Both the original French tale and the newly translated Engli...

  • The Roman Tales

    A contemporary collection of stories by one of France’s finest writers.Revered by key literary figures including as Balzac and Mérimée, Stendhal is best known for his novels, but his shorter works were just as powerful. In this brand new translat...



  • The Duchess of Palliano

    The tale of a horrible murder committed against the back drop of a corrupt Rome at the beginning of the renaissance....

  • Stendhal - The Red and the Black

    Marie-Henri Beyle was born on January 23rd 1783 in Grenoble, Isere. He is known to us all by his pen name; Stendahl. He spent much of his childhood in an unhappy state, mourning his beloved mother who died when he was 7 and disliking his unimaginativ...

  • The Novellas By Stendhal

  • The Abbess of Castro

    Brigands, convents under siege, a prince who'd do Machiavelli proud... This adventurous novella from a writer famous for far longer works is a singular take on love and war in Renaissance Italy. Claiming to be translating from sixteenth-century manu...

  • Armance

    Armance is a romance novel set during the Bourbon Restoration by Stendhal, published anonymously in 1827. It was Stendhal's first novel, though he had published essays and critical works on literature, art, and travel since 1815. It concerns Octave d...

  • Vittoria Accoramboni

    The story of a famous noble women and her brutal assassination in renaissance Italy....

  • The Cenci

    A wonderful biography of a fictional modern don Juan....

  • Vanina Vanini

    Cette nouvelle raconte l'histoire de Pietro Missirilli, un carbonaro qui lutte pour la liberté de l'Italie, et de Vanina, une princesse orgueilleuse, tous deux âgés de 20 ans. Le père de Vanina veut la marier à un prince, Don...

  • The Life of Henry Brulard

    The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book w...

  • On Love



  • Italian Chronicles

  • The Chartreuse of Parma

  • Red and Black

    A masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhal’s original Fueled with a combustible mix of ambition, naivete, and Napoleonic ideals, Julien Sorel ...

  • Lamiel

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • Chroniques Italiennes

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    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

  • Die Abtissin Von Castro

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stendhal has published 35 books.

Stendhal does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lamiel, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Stendhal, Lucien Leuwen Book One: The Green Huntsman, was published in January 1950.

No. Stendhal does not write books in series.
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