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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,... summary from source:
 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.... 
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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
1,575 words, approx. 5 pages
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...
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 American Scholar The Worldly Stendhal.
01/01/2001: 4,314 words, approx. 14 pages Stendhal first came into my life through the impassioned offices of Dr. Floyd Zulli. Improbable as it may sound to a younger generation, this professor with dark-rimmed glasses, a crew cut, and a zeal for world literature had mesmerized our household and thousands... summary from source:
Biography Stendhal: Dictionnaire de Stendhal.(Book review)
01/01/2006: 691 words, approx. 2 pages Stendhal Dictionnaire de Stendhal. Publie sous la direction de Yves Ansel, Philippe Berthier and Michael Nerlich (Dictionnaires et references, 9). Paris: Honore Champion, 2003. 776 pp. Euro115. "This dictionary is part of a series which has already covered Rousseau, Diderot and Voltaire.... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Were Smith\'d5s Mormons Ahead of Their Times?
4/2/2006: 994 words, approx. 3 pagesThis 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... summary from source:
The New York Observer Were Smith's Mormons Ahead of Their Times?
4/2/2006: 994 words, approx. 3 pagesThis 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...
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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