Scarlet and Black. A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century. by Stendhal - 1953

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

Penguin. Fair. 1959. Reprint.

Folio Society London (2nd imp), 1966. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with a black label, small repeated pale brown design all over cover, black endpapers, with slip case, 13 wood engravings by Franak Martin,483pp VG / G. Owner's inscription on front endpaper. Slight surface scratches on slip case.

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