Red and White (2 Volumes) (stendhal's Masterpiece)
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The protagonist Lucien is the son of a banker, but he is not interested in inheriting his father's business. He joins the army and becomes a second lieutenant of the cavalry regiment. When driving into the city of Nancy, he accidentally falls off his horse and meets Madame Chastelet, a beautiful young woman who is watching the excitement. Madame Chastelet was young and widowed, and owned a million-dollar fortune. She was the target of many aristocratic young people in Nancy's upper class society. But Madame Chastelet was interested in Lucien, and the two began a sincere and passionate love. "The Red and the White" is one of Stendhal's most representative works. He described the emotional entanglement of the young man and woman against the background of the conflict and competition between various social forces in the French July Dynasty at that time, so he wrote it vividly and profoundly.
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