This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The ...

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

The Red and the Black by Stendhal is a carefully prepared Good Old Pages Publishing digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring Stendhal's writing or building a library of enduring books.

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

Love, ambition, political intrigue, and unexpected adventure shape the turbulent life of a young Italian nobleman. Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma follows Fabrice del Dongo as he navigates political upheaval, romance, ambition, and the complicated world of nineteenth-century Italy. Fabrice's journey brings him into contact with powerful figures, dangerous political circumstances, passionate relationships, and unexpected challenges. Stendhal combines adventure with psychological insigh...

A brilliant young man's ambition collides with love, social expectations, and the rigid hierarchy of nineteenth-century France. Stendhal's The Red and the Black follows Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man determined to rise above his modest circumstances. Intelligent, passionate, and deeply conscious of social status, Julien navigates relationships and institutions while pursuing a place among the powerful. His ambitions bring him into complicated relationships and force him to confront t...

The Red and the Black by Stendhal is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring Stendhal's writing or building a library of enduring books.

A carpenter's son with a good memory and no prospects decides the church is the only ladder left, and climbs it through two households and one scaffold. Stendhal took the plot from a newspaper report of a seminarian who shot his former mistress in church. He predicted he would be read in 1935, and was almost exactly right.

A young Italian nobleman wanders onto the field at Waterloo without understanding a thing he sees, and spends the rest of the book in the intrigues of a small court. Stendhal dictated it in fifty-two days at fifty-five; Balzac wrote a seventy-page review calling it a masterpiece and nobody else noticed for sixty years.

The Charterhouse of Parma opens as both a dazzling political novel and a defense of genius itself. Honoré de Balzac's celebrated introduction crowns Stendhal as a master of ideas, irony, and modern realism, arguing that true literature must unite thought, feeling, and form. The novel that follows proves the point in full: a sharp, elegant blend of court intrigue, family loyalty, and historical upheaval set in Italy after Napoleon's fall. At the center stands Gina Pietranera, later the Duch...