The Charterhouse of Parma

Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism. Contemporary readers did not fully appreciate Stendhal's realistic s...