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A Short Biography of Stendhal

Author Name:

Stendhal

Born As:

Marie-Henri Beyle

Other Names:

Marie-Henri Beyle

Born:

23 Jan 1783

Died:

23 Mar 1842




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Selected Works:

Novels:

Armance - 1827
Le Rouge et le Noir - variously translated as Scarlet and Black, Red and Black, The Red and the Black, 1830
La Chartreuse de Parme - 1839 - The Charterhouse of Parma
Lucien Leuwen - 1835, unfinished, published 1894
Lamiel - 1839-42, unfinished, published 1889

Novellas:

The Pink and the Green - 1837, unfinished
Mina de Vanghel - 1830, later published in La Revue des Deux Mondes
Vittoria Accoramboni
Italian Chroniques, 1837 - 1839
The Cenci - Les Cenci
The Duchess of Palliano - La Duchesse de Palliano
The Abbess of Castro - L'Abbesse de Castro, 1832
Vanina Vanini

Biography:

A Life of Napoleon - 1817-1818, published 1929

Autobiography:

Stendhal's brief memoir, Souvenirs d'Égotisme - Memoirs of an Egotist was published posthumously in 1892. Also published was a more extended autobiographical work, thinly disguised as the Life of Henry Brulard.
The Life of Henry Brulard - 1835-1836, published 1890

Essays:

De L'Amour - 1822 - On Love
Souvenirs d'Égotisme - Memoirs of an Egotist, published in 1892
His other works include short stories, journalism, travel books - among them Rome, Naples et Florence and Promenades dans Rome, a famous collection of essays on Italian painting, critical essays on Racine and Shakespeare, and biographies of several prominent figures of his time, including Napoleon, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, and Metastasio.                          
                          
                          
Better known by his penname Stendhal.