Stendhal

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' "Beylism".

Books by Stendhal

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The Red and the Black
Stendhal
3.9 (57k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
Ambitious and deceitful, Julien Sorel schemes his way through post-Waterloo French society, seducing women and climbing the social ladder, until an impulsive act shatters his rise.
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
3.8 (15k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
Fabrizio del Dongo, a young aristocrat, seeks glory with Napoleon at Waterloo but instead finds himself caught in scandals and political plots by his cunning aunt and her lover in post-Napoleonic Italy.