The Charterhouse of Parma
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The Charterhouse of Parma
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Stendhal
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Summary
Fabrice del Dongo is seventeen when he runs away from his father's castle on Lake Como to fight for Napoleon, and arrives at Waterloo just in time to understand nothing of it. From that famous battlefield scene Stendhal follows him back into the small, glittering, dangerous world of the court of Parma.
There his aunt Gina, the brilliant Duchess Sanseverina, and her lover Count Mosca, the Prince's minister, try to steer Fabrice toward a safe career in the Church, while he stumbles from love affairs into a killing and from there into the Farnese Tower, the state prison. From his cell he sees Clélia, the daughter of the governor, and falls in love for the first time — and the tower becomes the place where his whole life is decided.
Written in fifty-two days and published in 1839, The Charterhouse of Parma was hailed by Balzac as a masterpiece and has been loved by novelists ever since, from Tolstoy to Proust. It is a novel of politics and intrigue, of passion and wit, moving with a speed and irony all its own. This new translation presents it complete and unabridged.
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