The Red and the Black (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 157)

New York: The Modern Library, 1926. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 6x5x1. 1931-39 printing of Toledano 157.1, binding style 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, a few minor blemishes to boards, several small spots on fore edge, ink name and date on half-title page. 1926 Hard Cover. vi, [2], 287, [1], v-vi, 9-349, [9] pp. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrief. "Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical picture of French Restoration society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui. The complex, sympathetic portrayal of Julien, the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions, makes him Stendhal's most brilliant and human creation-and one of the greatest characters in European literature." CONTENTS: A Small Town; A Mayor; The Bread of the Poor; Father and Son; Driving a Bargain; Dulness; Elective Affinities; Minor Events; An Evening in the Country; A Large Heart and a Small Fortune; Night Thoughts; A Journey; Open-Work Stockings; The English Scissors; Cock-Crow; The Day After; The Principal Deputy; A King at Verrieres; To Think is to be Full of Sorrow; The Anonymous Letters; Conversation with a Lord and Master; Manners and Customs in 1830; The Sorrows of an Official; A Capital; The Seminary; The World, or What the Rich Lack; First Experience of Life; A Procession; The First Step; Ambition; Country Pleasures; First Appearance in Society; First Steps; The Hotel de la Mole; Sensibility and a Pious Lady; Pronunciation; An Attack of Gout; What is the Decoration That Confers Distinction; The Ball; Queen Marguerite; The Tyranny of a Girl; Another Danton?; A Plot; A Girl's Thoughts; Is It a Plot?; One O'Clock in the Morning; An Old Sword; Painful Moments; The Opera Bouffe; The Japanese Vase; The Secret Note; The Discussion; The Clergy, Their Forests, Liberty; Strasbourg; The Office of Virtue; Moral Love; The Best Positions in the Church; Manon Lescaut; Boredom; A Box at the Bouffes; Making Her Afraid; The Tiger; The Torment of the Weak; A Man of Spirit; A Storm; Painful Details; A Dungeon; A Man of Power; Intrigue; Tranquillity; The Trial; In the Prison; A Last Adieu; The Shadow of the Guillotine; Exit Julien; Translator's Note.