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The Red and the Black

Le Rouge et le noir

textual humanities text book major Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Stendhal, author

Canon Rationale

A major nineteenth-century French novel, included for ambition, class mobility, Restoration politics, interiority, careerism, and psychological realism.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 118.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'The Red and the Black'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830' by Stendhal.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read the complete The Red and the Black in French or translation. Record edition and translator if applicable.

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