{"product_id":"the-red-and-the-black-wordsworth-classics","title":"The Red and The Black (Wordsworth Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Red \u0026amp; The Black STENDAHL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by C. R. Scott Monerieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration. Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimilitude the 'moral and morose' France of 1830. However 'moral and morose' his novel is definitely not. Ironie, fast-moving, entertaining and incisive in its social criticism, it is a novel of ambition and passion, of indignation an…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Best Of Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45668181606657,"sku":"321EDM6TD-Used","price":150.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/1_7208a812-6f08-4a29-8a24-d7f91fe22f00.jpg?v=1729072086","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/the-red-and-the-black-wordsworth-classics","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}