Stendhal: Racine and Shakespeare [2012] paperback ZCHEA An engrossing tale told in

An engrossing tale told in a compelling new voice that allows contemporary readers to luxuriate in Homer's descriptions and similes and to thrill at the tension and excitement of its hero's adventures

a cataclysmic war cracked the world open

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sentences that have impacted them for better and for worse

whether you're running away from it or racing towards it

Stendhal: Racine and Shakespeare [2012] paperback ZCHEA An engrossing tale told inThis major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal's decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before 'The Charterhouse of Parma', it marked the beginning of his illustrious career and established him at the forefront of the French Romantic movement. The first part of 'Racine and Shakespeare' appeared as a pamphlet in 1823, when Waterloo was still bitterly alive in the French mind. In it,