The Red and the Black, Volume II

Stendhal (1783 - 1842)
Translated by Horace B. Samuel (1883 - 1950)

Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't seem to fit a defined genre. Some say he's a Romantic, others that he's a Modernist and that Le Rouge et Le Noir is the first modern novel. On one point they are all agreed: the novel is a masterpiece that shows a young theology student - Julien Sorel - intelligent, handsome and who is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins. Stendhal presents the reader with a satirical plot that will involve you in passions, intrigues, last-minute reversals and, mostly, the hypocrisy by which society operates. (Summary by sailormoon)

Genre(s): General Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 01 - The Pleasures of the Country Malone
00:30:21
Play 02 02 - Entry into society Leni
00:20:36
Play 03 03 - The First Steps Leni
00:08:20
Play 04 04 - The Hotel De La Mole Malone
00:37:05
Play 05 05 - Sensibility and a Great Pious Lady Malone
00:08:56
Play 06 06 - Pronounciation Malone
00:19:50
Play 07 07 - An Attack of Gout Malone
00:22:22
Play 08 08 - What is the decoration which confers distinction? Malone
00:30:31
Play 09 09 - The Ball Malone
00:24:59
Play 10 10 - Queen Marguerite Lynne T
00:20:24
Play 11 11 - A Young Girl's Dominion Malone
00:12:23
Play 12 12 - Is he a Danton? Malone
00:17:38
Play 13 13 - A Plot Malone
00:26:38
Play 14 14 - A Young Girl's Thoughts Malone
00:17:00
Play 15 15 - Is it a Plot? madcappe
00:12:38
Play 16 16 - One o'clock in the morning madcappe
00:16:06
Play 17 17 - An old Sword madcappe
00:11:29
Play 18 18 - Cruel Moments madcappe
00:13:54
Play 19 19 - The Opera Bouffe madcappe
00:24:21
Play 20 20 - The Japanese Vase madcappe
00:15:49
Play 21 21 - The Secret Note Chiquito Crasto
00:12:35
Play 22 22 - The Discussion Chiquito Crasto
00:19:59
Play 23 23 - The Clergy, The Forests, Liberty Chiquito Crasto
00:19:40
Play 24 24 - Strasbourg Chiquito Crasto
00:15:03
Play 25 25 - The Ministry of Virtue Chiquito Crasto
00:15:40
Play 26 26 - Moral Love Chiquito Crasto
00:08:52
Play 27 27 - The finest places in the church Chiquito Crasto
00:08:02
Play 28 28 - Manon Lescaut Chiquito Crasto
00:10:00
Play 29 29 - Ennui Chiquito Crasto
00:08:27
Play 30 30 - A Box at the Bouffes Chiquito Crasto
00:10:43
Play 31 31 - Frighten her meridiculous
00:11:27
Play 32 32 - The Tiger Lynne T
00:12:25
Play 33 33 - The Hell of Weakness Rapunzelina
00:11:23
Play 34 34 - A Man of Intellect Rapunzelina
00:13:51
Play 35 35 - A Storm rookieblue
00:13:45
Play 36 36 - Sad Details Lynne T
00:17:11
Play 37 37 - A Turret Rapunzelina
00:10:06
Play 38 38 - A Powerful Man Rapunzelina
00:13:21
Play 39 39 - The Intrigue Rapunzelina
00:10:24
Play 40 40 - Tranquility Rapunzelina
00:09:30
Play 41 41 - The Trial Malone
00:20:37
Play 42 42 - Chapter 72 Nadine Eckert-Boulet
00:14:20
Play 43 43 - Chapter 73 Malone
00:15:03
Play 44 44 - Chapter 74 Malone
00:21:25
Play 45 45 - Chapter 75 Malone
00:20:17