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Two Stories/Deux nouvelles: A Dual-Language Book ("Vanina Vanini" and "The Abbess of Castro")
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Best known for The Red and the Black, Stendhal excelled at spinning imaginative tales of strong-willed, passionate characters within historical settings. This Dual-language edition features 2 of his best short stories: "Vanina Vanini," concerning a romance between an aristocrat and a wounded soldier, and "The Abbess of Castro," which recounts a nun's illicit liaison.
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224 pages, Paperback
First published May 5,2014
This edition
- Format
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224 pages, Paperback
- Published
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January 26, 2005 by Dover Publications
- ISBN
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9780486439570
- ASIN
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0486439577
- Language
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English
About the author
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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).
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