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Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon's cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842 Burton Raffel is a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Diane Johnson is the author of ten novels, two books of essays, two biographies, and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. She has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardStendhal is the author of 'Red and the Black A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century', published 2004 under ISBN 9780812972078 and ISBN 0812972074.
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