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The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac , Tolstoy , André Gide , Lampedusa , Henry James , and Ernest Hemingway .
Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of European history. As Balzac wrote, "Never before have the hearts of princes, ministers, courtiers, and women been depicted like this...one sees perfection in every detail."
Mar 23, 2011 · The Charterhouse of Parma, novel by Stendhal, published in French as La Chartreuse de Parme in 1839. It is generally considered one of Stendhal’s masterpieces, second only to The Red and the Black, and is remarkable for its highly sophisticated rendering of human psychology and its subtly drawn.
Aug 4, 2018 · The Chartreuse of Parma Translated from the French of Stendhal (Henri Beyle) Credits: Produced by Anne Grieve and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Language: English: LoC Class
Across 27 eventful chapters, Charterhouse of Parma traces the life of one of the most memorable literary heroes of the 19th-century and beyond: the fiery yet self-possessed Italian nobleman, Fabrizio Valserra del Dongo.
The Charterhouse of Parma: Directed by Christian-Jaque. With Renée Faure, Lucien Coëdel, Louis Salou, María Casares. Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around.
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage.
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Sep 9, 1999 · The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage.
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous...
Headstrong and naïve, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory.
