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| Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : LES MIS: What page are you on? and what stands out to you so far? | | 138 | EnriqueFreeque, Today 12:16am | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Lilisin in 2009 | | 57 | lilisin, Wednesday 5:42pm | |
| Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? | | 561 | loafhunter13, December 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008 | | 175 | newlifecoming, December 2009 | |
| Club Read 2009 : janepriceestrada’s 2009 Reading | | 51 | janepriceestrada, December 2009 | |
| Folio Society devotees : Slightly off topic: Editions Jean de Bonnot | | 56 | ironjaw, December 2009 | |
| Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Your personal top 10 all time favorites list(s) | | 296 | tomcatMurr, November 2009 | |
| 999 Challenge : ReneeMarie's 999 | | 102 | bruce_krafft, October 2009 | |
| 1010 Category Challenge : Moneybeets's Mouth-Watering 1010 Challenge | | 26 | kristenn, October 2009 | |
| En français : Belles éditions? | | 2 | CyCy, September 2009 | |
| Italians - Italiani : I libri "tristi" sono sempre i più belli? | | 10 | IoAnnalisa, September 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Book Brought Home - August 2009 | | 165 | Bridget770, September 2009 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : All the Colours of the Rainbow... | | 28 | chinquapin, August 2009 | |
| Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate | | 501 | bookladykm, August 2009 | |
| French literature, 19th & 20th century : Favourite Works/Authors? | | 23 | Cecilturtle, July 2009 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Checkmate! | | 14 | rolandperkins, July 2009 | |
| Taggers! : Other people's weirdness | | 69 | 235711, April 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in February part II | | 229 | Neverwithoutabook, March 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Favorite 5 Fiction Reads of 2008 | | 109 | pm11, March 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : WHY are you reading now? | | 115 | JimThomson, February 2009 | |
| Group Reads - Literature : Pere Goriot by Honore De Balzac - First half of the book | | 19 | wookiebender, January 2009 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Shades of Red | | 33 | varielle, January 2009 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 150 - 2008 | | 119 | zanix, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : scaifea's 2008 Challenge | | 159 | scaifea, December 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : Zero's 888 | | 73 | ReneeMarie, December 2008 | |
| French literature, 19th & 20th century : crazy about Stendhal | | 11 | DavidX, November 2008 | |
| Book talk : Game ---> PICK A BOOK YOU HAVEN'T READ YET | | 391 | hemlokgang, November 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : I've lost the currently reading thread - so here's number errr lots | | 272 | Busifer, September 2008 | |
| George Macy devotees : LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Check-list of Titles: 1929 - 2007 | | 33 | chase.donaldson, August 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : June 2008: Which Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? | | 104 | billiejean, July 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : The Do Not Bother To Read Before You Die Thread | | 70 | theduckthief, July 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008 | | 119 | rachbxl, July 2008 | |
| Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch | | 202 | teelgee, June 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game | | 300 | BKieras, June 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Opposites Attract | | 14 | extrajoker, June 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mayl 2008 | | 158 | ellevee, May 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads March 2008 | | 38 | sandragon, April 2008 | |
| The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, part III | | 394 | WillSteed, February 2008 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : December 2007 edition | | 58 | thioviolight, January 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Megami's 2007 Challenge | | 64 | chanale, December 2007 | |
| Nabokov! : Synesthesia | | 4 | enevada, December 2007 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : aljazcosini is going for 50 | | 18 | aljazcosini, November 2007 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : bookgrl's 2007 Challenge | | 22 | Cariola, August 2007 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Wanna Bet? | | 5 | LynnB, August 2007 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Board Games | | 12 | hazelk, August 2007 | |
| Book talk : More fun with libraries/Rainbow | | 33 | annabethblue, January 2007 | |
| Bug Collectors : Why can't I separate some unrelated authors - LT can't derive distinct pages? | | 13 | DisassemblyOfReason, January 2007 | |
Red and the Black by Stendhal ... in the Waterloo sections, both Hugo and Tolstoy were influenced by Stendahl's description of the battle of Waterloo in The Red and the Black. Lucien arrives at the battle eager to take part and win glory but cannot find it. He spends the day wondering around the field, seeing isolated ... ... in the Carpet; The Aspern Papers; The Way It Came (The Friend of the Friends); The Turn of the Screw.
6. Stendhal: Le Rouge et le Noir
7. Julien Gracq: Chateau d'Argol and The Dark Stranger
8. Tommaso Landolfi: An Autumn Story
9. Edgar A. Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1 ... ... mind without scouring my bookshelves. Only allowed myself one book per author:
The Leopard - Giovanni di Lampedusa
Le Rouge et le Noir
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Wuthering Heights
Tristram Shandy
Love and Garbage
Your Face Tomorrow - actually I've only read the ... ... compte que la plupart des livres que j'aimerais avoir dans ce genre d'éditions sont des titres comme Les Misérables ou Le Rouge et le Noir - alors franchement, pas question de les acheter en traduction anglaise. Est-ce que quelqu'un a une idées quelles maisons d'éditions produisent des ... ... group.
I'm not far in Poland, either. I didn't think it was that thick a book, but wow is the print small. As far as The Red and the Black goes, I think taste is subjective, and everybody isn't going to like the same kind of book. We like Wilkie Collins, and we're in classics book group, ... ... exactly the same problem with the main character--it's why I gave up about a third of the way through. I'll probably give The Red and the Black another try next year when I plan to read several classics I had hoped to read this year!
I have my own computer and I'm still struggling to find ... 96> Not only do I have The Red and the Black and Charterhouse of Parma in my home library, I also have a book he wrote called Love (for which I could find no touchstone). Three to potentially dislike. Yay.
As far as Nancy Drew goes, I'll give her another couple of tries. Her friends ... ... and I'm too lazy to find it out in the threads.
Just to tell you that I asked my wife to buy for me the two volumes of Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal, and that I'm delighted by what she brought back to me: these are two in-octavos, full sheepskin black leather with gilt neo-romantic ... Renee
Oh, dear! The Red and the Black is on my TBR oist for next year. Maybe I should read Charterhouse of Parma instead. I need to read a Stendhal--and I own both of those.
When I was young I loved Nancy Drew--it was the only series I really got into. I read them in the fifties and ... Comfort Food
1. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
2. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
3. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
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5.
6.
7. ... : Lituma dans les Andes
Shusaku Endo : La fille que j'ai abandonnée
Tonino Benacquista : Malavita
Stendhal : Le rouge et le noir and La chartreuse de Parme
Francois Mauriac : Le noeud de viperes
Victor Hugo : Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné
Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie ... ... : Lituma dans les Andes
Shusaku Endo : La fille que j'ai abandonnée
Tonino Benacquista : Malavita
Stendhal : Le rouge et le noir and La chartreuse de Parme
Francois Mauriac : Le noeud de viperes
Victor Hugo : Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné
Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie ... ... kinds, so when I go for the classics, it's the 18th and 19th century stuff I gravitate to. Next month is my pick, which is The Red and the Black by Stendhal.
On the positive side of the ledger, I did enjoy the Rushdie I read well enough, even without it being my usual type of time ... ... and I'm not sure how popular they are outside of France, but I always felt like the black sheep for disliking them:
The Red and the Black by Stendhal - Even the characters are bored in this one. This didn't help my own case.
The Kill by Emile Zola - Oh, the gratuitous angst and ten ... ... i libri "a lieto fine", per quanto di tanto in tanto riesco ad apprezzare anche libri "tristi". Figli e amanti o Il rosso e il nero sono libri che ho letto e apprezzato, ma in certi momenti.
Inoltre, come scrisse Calvino, i classici sono interessanti perché hanno sempre qualcosa ... ... & literature, exploring the relationship between the two, from early historical novels like The Heart of Midlothian and The Red and the Black to more recent stuff like Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Orhan Pamuk's Snow). Anyway, it was then that I read my first 'graphic ... The rest of 'em...
The Red and The Black-Stendhal
The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Herzog- Saul Bellow
Oh, Play That Thing- Roddy Doyle
A 1960 Theatre World Annual
Fodor's Montreal
Entre Nous
Prague: An Historic Town
The New Louvre
A lot of these are ... Rosemeria (4), and WilfGehlen (6),
Madame Bovary and The Red and the Black also immediately came to mind.
Oh, such happy endings! ... jeunes filles en fleurs by Marcel Proust
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton ... ... père
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal Queen's Gambit
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Honours Board
The Red and the Black
All the King's Men 8. I enjoyed the Horace B. Samuel translation of The Red and the Black. I have to admit that I was distinctly underwhelmed by The Red and the Black (which was doubly disappointing since I love Balzac and I know Balzac admired Stendahl). I hope that triciab's post is right and that I will like The Charterhouse of Parma more. If I had to pick, it would be Le Rouge et le noir with Julien Sorel's charming naiveté. Fabrice just wasn't as convincing for me. ... else a turn in hemlokgang's library, but no takers yet, so I'll happily go back there! This time I think I'll choose Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal. ... ung
Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
Where the Apple Ripens by Jessie Kesson
Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal ... ung
Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
Where the Apple Ripens by Jessie Kesson
Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal I read a book for my book group called The red and the Black by Stendhal. I can't believe I actually made an effort to finish the thing. The amusing part was during the discussion no one could remember why we voted to read it in the first place.
I agree with mckait - I found that The Da Vinci ... ... Interested to find out what you think when you finish Part Two.
I haven't had many successes this month. I didn't enjoy Le Rouge and Le Noir (boring) or Pnin. The Red Queen was okay but not of the same standard of writing as other 1001 books. On the plus side was Veronika Decides to Die ... ... affordable treasures. From one seller recently, I got pristine copies of Nana, The Turn of the Screw, and Stendahl's Le Rouge et Noir, all for $77.00 US. Those prices aren't much higher than I have paid for some Heritage Press books in bookstores. Coming up in the next few days is a ... >36, I understand why you get stuck in Le rouge et le noir - the writing style can be so bad, and Sorel must be one of the most loathable figures in French literature. On one side he's focused on hiw own genious, on the other side he's a complete loser. The book was too pathetic for my own liking, ... I too am slogging away. My particular slog is Stendahl's le rouge et le noir. I'm reached a point in the book where I've read too much to give it up completely but I'm am not enthused about continuing. ... Bovary because I've reread them all in the past several years.
(I also would vote for several in the 2-vote category -- The Red and the Black, Cairo Trilogy, and Bleak House.) I've been wanting to read Rouge et Noir for a long time, and I just happen to have a copy in my bookcase. A terrific French classic is Stendahl, The Red and the Black Rouge et Noir. A pioneer of pyschological realism (half a generation ahead of Madame Bovary), it reads strikingly modern for 1830. Over the weekend, I finished The Red and the Black, which was not what I was expecting, but was still an OK book. Yesterday I started Oliver Twist (another book from the Banned Books list), and I'm really excited about it, since I've never read it before. Do you know why The Red and the Black was/is banned? I read it recently and I couldn't really figure out what was so objectionable about it. 16. The Red and the Black by Stendhal (from the Banned Books list)
Before I started this one, I had no idea what it was about and had some vague notion that the French Revolution was involved. I certainly wasn't expecting a romance (strange as that romance story may be). It was an ... This weekend I finished The Red and the Black, and now I'm ready to start Oliver Twist. I'm also still working through a collection of Emerson's Essays, Faith of the Fallen, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm reading:
-The Red and the Black, because it's on the 100 Banned Books list that I'm making my way through together with my best friend.
-The Eye of Cybele, because it was the next book in line on Mount TBR.
-Essays by Emerson, because it's my current library book (I have a system for ... Excluding re-reads:
1. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
2. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
t3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
t3. A Handful of Dust
Honorable Mention: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Ninety-Three, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Worst of ... Best Reads:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
3. The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Biggest Dissapointments:
Bl ... ... Pericles, Alcibiades, Aspasia, along with various fictional characters and a smattering of other historical ones.
The Red and the Black - Just started this one as well. Good so far - the characters are all pretty interesting and complex. I've already read both Buddenbrooks AND The red and the black. A challenge: anyone who's read Hadrian VII? Ok, I've read Buddenbrooks. The Red and the Black anyone? ... Novels {complete}
1. Le Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac ****
2. La Jalousie by Alain Robbe-Grillet ***
3. Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal *****
4. Quatrevingt-treize by Victor Hugo ****
5. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost ***
6. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, ... ... *½
by Heinrich Böll
03/13/08
The Garden of Forking Paths (Fictions) ***½
by Jorge Luis Borges
03/15/08
The Red and the Black *****
by Stendhal
03/15/08 ... collection of eight short stories, The Garden of Forking Paths, from his collected Fictions. The inimitable Stendhal's Scarlet and Black graces my French reading list. ... in this group. Recent readings were La Peau de Chagrin and La Bête Humaine, and I loved them both.
I recently read Le rouge et le noir by Stendahl and was distinctly underwhelmed.
Dumas is not as "heavy" as some of the others, but as far as storytelling goes he can't be beat.
... This should prove to be a fun way to add a little variety to this years reading.
{Original Challenge completed June, 24th}
{Original Challenge doubled November, 18th}
Categories now start at Message ... I picked up a copy of The Red and the Black today at my lovely local bookshop - it's coming up on one of my TBR lists... ... 7 was always torn between a life in the military or the priesthood and it wasn't until years later, reading Stendhal's le Rouge et le Noir -the touchstone in English isn't working - that I realized that number 7 clearly belong to the Church, and furthermore, he was Jesuit. ... read. And some seriousness under all that excellent witty satire.
Now, back into a longer-term read of Stendahl, Rouge et Noir (The Red and the Black). Not light reading. But an enlightening, and sometimes amusing, look at class and psychological tensions in post-Napoleonic France. ... ... books have the tag "hardboiled", as does Crime and Punishment;
- Life of Pi is apparently a "how-to" book;
- The Red and the Black is "russian literature";
- I haven't read The Historian yet, but nothing in the cover blurb leads me to believe that it features Buffy;
- I must ... High Stakes - Dick Francis
The Red and the Black - Stendahl (roulette wheel)
Science, Numbers, and I - Isaac Asimov (numbers)
The Jumping Frog - Mark Twain
How to Lose Gracefully at Russian Roulette - M. T. Chambers (there is a use for gag gifts!) ... of the storm
For love alone
The Man of Property
In Chancery
To Let
Of Human Bondage
My life as a fake
The Red and the Black
Labyrinths
What I Loved: A Novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Food and Art
The story of art
Battle Lines: Australian Artists at War
Hang- ... The Red and the Black
Death and Restoration
The Devil in the White City
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens 30. Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Short but quite interesting. Must read classic and all.
31. Bone: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith
Love Bone. Better than Y or Fables? Possibly
... byEdward Eager
Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Crowned in a Far Country byPrincess Michael of Kent
The Red And the Black by Stendahl The Red and the Black
A Clockwork Orange
The Yellow Wallpaper
Anne of Green Gables
A Pair of Blue Eyes
errmm... something by Inigo Jones
Violet to Vita
bonus book
Richard III ... much, what i already read this year, 18 books so far... ere's the list:
1. what i loved by siri hustvedt
2. rot und schwarz (the red and the black) by stendhal
3. schindlers ark by thomas keneally
4. drachenläufer (kite runner) by Khaled Hosseini
5. paddy ... ... The Color of Water
Some combined colors:
BLACK & WHITE: The Habit & Black Thorn, White Rose
RED & BLACK: The Red and the Black
RAINBOW: Forbidden Colors & For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
... about any Stendahl--one cannot know about everything, can one ?--but I do know for sure the writer of the famous book Le rouge et le Noir is no "Stendahl", but Stendhal indeed--the latter being the nom de plume (pen name) of Marie-Henri Beyle (Grenoble, France, 23th Ja ... ... my professors once explained to our class, "There are two kinds of scholars when it comes to Stendhal: those who love Le Rouge et le Noir, and those who love La Chartreuse de Parme. It's said that if you love the one, you hate the other, and the two types of scholars have gone so far as ... ... it from me to get in the way of other's enjoyment of this particular sour wretch, but how would you compare Stendhal's The Red and the Black on some of these scores? Austen has been much celebrated by those looking for early 19th century social novels focused on women, but I don't ...
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