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Biography

Name: Stendhal
Birth Date: January 23, 1783
Death Date: March 22, 1842
Place of Birth: Grenoble, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Stendhal
10,893 words, approx. 36 pages
Among the four greatest novelists of nineteenth-century France, Stendhal is noteworthy for the intensity of conscience and feeling in his characters, and for beginning his publication of fictional works later in life than did Honoré de Balzac,...
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Biography of Stendhal
1,940 words, approx. 7 pages
The works of the French author Stendhal (1783-1842) mark the transition in France from romanticism to realism. His masterpieces--The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma--provide incisive and ironic depictions of love and the will to power....


Quotations
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Stendhal Quotes
3,170 words, approx. 11 pages
Marie-Henri Beyle ( January 23 , 1783 – March 23 , 1842 ), better known by his penname Stendhal , was a 19th century French writer. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 De L'Amour (On Love) (1822) 1.2 Armance (1827) 1.3 Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Stendhal Information
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Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Were Smith\'d5s Mormons Ahead of Their Times?
4/2/2006: 994 words, approx. 3 pages
This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what...
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The New York Observer
Were Smith's Mormons Ahead of Their Times?
4/2/2006: 994 words, approx. 3 pages
This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what...
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The New York Observer
The Warburg Peters Family
12/17/2006: 808 words, approx. 3 pages
Upper East Side real-estate brokers like to speculate about the future of Frederick Warburg Peters. His exclusive and independent little brokerage, the storyline goes, may be fated for what so many exclusive firms have embraced: a buyout from a national real-estate conglomerate like Reology. That...
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Shermans Travel
Top Ten Lakeside Retreats
5/4/2007: 1,668 words, approx. 6 pages
1. Finger Lakes Nestled snugly between Lake Ontario and the northern border of Pennsylvania, the Finger Lakes district of New York State is a popular summertime playground for kids of all ages, attracting locals from bustling regional cities such as Syracuse or Rochester, as well...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Martin Turnell
11,014 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following excerpt, Turnell examines Armance to see what light it sheds on Stendhal's later work, his times, and nineteenth century psychology.
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Critical Essay by Margaret Waller
7,549 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt, Waller analyzes Armance as a male writer's reworking of the traditionally femaleauthored sentimental novel.
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Critical Essay by Marie J. Diamond
5,496 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Diamond discusses Oedipal symbolism in Armance.
 


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Stendhal

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