[The Charterhouse of Parma] (By: Stendhal) [published: November, 1992] Cover
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[The Charterhouse of Parma] (By Stendhal) [published: November, 1992]

Stendhal

Officer, diplomat, spy, journalist & intermittent genius, Marie Henri Beyle employed more than 200 aliases in the course of his crowded career. His most famous moniker, however, was Stendhal, which he affixed to his greatest work, The Charterhouse of Parma. The author spent a mere seven weeks cranki...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was highlighted as a compulsively funny portrait of an Italian nobleman during the Napoleonic era.

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Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma ... it's just compulsively funny. It's a portrait of this kind of minor Italian nobleman ... who attempts to join the Napoleonic wars for the Emperor

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It was highlighted as a compulsively funny portrait of an Italian nobleman during the Napoleonic era.

"

Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma ... it's just compulsively funny. It's a portrait of this kind of minor Italian nobleman ... who attempts to join the Napoleonic wars for the Emperor

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