Author

Stendhal

22 books, mostly literary fiction, for Independently Published and Naxos AudioBooks, 1999–2026

Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), known by the pen name Stendhal, was a French novelist, essayist, critic, and travel writer. His major novels, including The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, combined sharp social observation with unusually nuanced psychological characterization. Writing at the transition between Romanticism and Realism, he became an important precursor of the modern psychological novel.