{"product_id":"the-red-and-the-black-paperback","title":"The Red and the Black - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStendhal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRoger Gard\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eRoger Gard\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenri Marie Beyle\u003c\/b\u003e, known through his writing as Stendhal, was born in Grenoble in 1783 and educated there at the École Centrale. A cousin offered him a post in the Ministry of War, and from 1800 he followed Napoleon's campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia and Austria. In between wars, he spent his time in Paris drawing rooms and theatres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the fall of Napoleon, he retired to Italy, adopted his pseudonym and started to write books on Italian painting, Haydn and Mozart, and travels in Italy. In 1821 the Austrian police expelled him from the country, and on returning to Paris he finished his book \u003cb\u003eDe l'amour\u003c\/b\u003e. This was followed by \u003cb\u003eRacine et Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e, a defense of Romantic literature. \u003cb\u003eLe Rouge et le noir \u003c\/b\u003ewas his second novel, and he also produced or began three others, including \u003cb\u003eLa Chartreuse de Parme \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eLucien Leuwen\u003c\/b\u003e. None of his published works was received with any great understanding during his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyle was appointed Consul at Civitavecchia after the 1830 revolution, but his health deteriorated and six years later he was back in Paris and beginning a \u003cb\u003eLife\u003c\/b\u003e of Napoleon. In 1841 he was once again recalled for reasons of illness, and in the following year suffered a fatal stroke. Various autobiographical works, \u003cb\u003eJournal\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSouvenirs de l'egotisme\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eLa Vie de Henri Brulard\u003c\/b\u003e, were published later, as his fame grew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoger Gard\u003c\/b\u003e was educated at Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Before his death in 2000 he was Emeritus Reader in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Among his publications are books on Henry James, Jane Austen and the teaching of fiction in schools. He also translated Alfred de Vigny's \u003cb\u003eThe Servitude and Grandeur of Arms\u003c\/b\u003e, and edited Henry James's \u003cb\u003eA Landscape Painter and Other Tales\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Jolly Corner and Other Tales \u003c\/b\u003eand a selection of his literary criticism, \u003cb\u003eThe Critical Muse\u003c\/b\u003e, for Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 607\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 8.03 x 4.85 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red and the Black\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.4\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 35\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753863938336,"sku":"9780140447644","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0ba4fd6d4919ba54bf62a2f966afdedf.webp?v=1780028524","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-red-and-the-black-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}