The Red and the Black

A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century

by

Stendhal

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff

eBooks@Adelaide
2009

First published in 1831 as Le Rouge et le Noir.

This translation first published in 1925.

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Last updated Sun Aug 29 19:04:35 2010.

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Table of Contents

BOOK ONE

  1. A Small Town
  2. A Mayor
  3. The Bread of the Poor
  4. Father and Son
  5. Driving a Bargain
  6. Dullness
  7. Elective Affinities
  8. Minor Events
  9. An Evening in the Country
  10. A Large Heart and a Small Fortune
  11. Night Thoughts
  12. A Journey
  13. Open-work Stockings
  14. The English Scissors
  15. Cock-crow
  16. The Day After
  17. The Principal Deputy
  18. A King at Verrieres
  19. To Think Is To Be Full of Sorrow
  20. The Anonymous Letters
  21. Conversation with a Lord and Master
  22. Manners and Customs in 1830
  23. The Sorrows of an Official
  24. A Capital
  25. The Seminary
  26. The World, or What the Rich Lack
  27. First Experience of Life
  28. A Procession
  29. The First Step
  30. Ambition

BOOK TWO

  1. Country Pleasures
  2. First Appearance in Society
  3. First Steps
  4. The Hotel de La Mole
  5. Sensibility and a Pious Lady
  6. Pronunciation
  7. An Attack of Gout
  8. What Is the Decoration that Confers Distinction?
  9. The Ball
  10. Queen Marguerite
  11. The Tyranny of a Girl
  12. Another Danton
  13. A Plot
  14. A Girl’s Thoughts
  15. Is it a Plot?
  16. One o’Clock in the Morning
  17. An Old Sword
  18. Painful Moments
  19. The Opera–Bouffe
  20. The Japanese Vase
  21. The Secret Note
  22. The Discussion
  23. The Clergy, their Forests, Liberty
  24. Strasbourg
  25. The Office of Virtue
  26. Moral Love
  27. The Best Positions in the Church
  28. Manon Lescaut
  29. Boredom
  30. A Box at the Bouffes
  31. Making Her Afraid
  32. The Tiger
  33. The Torment of the Weak
  34. A Man of Spirit
  35. A Storm
  36. Painful Details
  37. A Dungeon
  38. A Man of Power
  39. Intrigue
  40. Tranquillity
  41. The Trial
  42. In the Prison
  43. Last Adieux
  44. The Shadow of the Guillotine
  45. Exit Julien

To The Happy Few

Translator’s Note

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