Scarlet And Black. A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century. by Stendhal - 1965

Penguin Classics, 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

London.: Penguin, 1953. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. first thus, paperback, 511 pages, covers browned, pages lightly tanned, otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 240.

Penguin. Fair. 1959. Reprint.

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1985. Paperback. Slight foxing to end inside covers.Slight wear to cover. Translated and with an Introduction by Margaret R. B. Shaw. It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was wiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circumstances and wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy. On the road to the surprisintg crime he commits (out of passion, principle or insanity), he turns into Stendhal's greatest and most completely human creation. 509 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

London: Penguin Classics, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. Fair. Reprinted paperback edition in fair condition with creasing to spine and minor wear to cover,crease down front cover. Internally good. Edges lightly tanned and pages clean and clear. No inscription or other writing throughout. A more than acceptable reading copy