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Books by Stendhal

Stendhal was the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), a French novelist, critic, and civil servant who served in Napoleon's campaigns and spent years in diplomatic posts in Italy. He wrote two major novels — The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) — plus a celebrated study of love, On Love (1822), and an autobiography, The Life of Henry Brulard. He was largely unrecognized in his lifetime but predicted his own posthumous reputation; he wrote that he expected to be read in 1880 or so. He died of an apoplectic stroke on a Paris street at fifty-nine.