Stendhal & August Nemo 
Essential Novelists – Stendhal 
modern consciousness of reality

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Stendhalwhich are The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.
Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters’ psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism.The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche refers to Stendhal as ‘France’s last great psychologist’
Novels selected for this book:


– The Red and the Black
– The Charterhouse of Parma
This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Over de auteur

Marie-Henri Beyle (23 January 1783 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters’ psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism.