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Stendhal: The Red and the Black (unabridged)

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Stendhal: The Red and the Black (unabridged)

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Young Julien Sorel, the son of a country timber merchant, carries a portrait of his hero Napoleon Bonaparte and dreams of military glory. A brilliant career in the Church leads him into Parisian high society, where, ‘mounted upon the finest horse in Alsace’, he gains high military office and wins the heart of the aristocratic Mlle Mathilde de la Mole. Julien’s cunning and ambition lead him into all sorts of scrapes, but it is the struggle between his passion for two beautiful women – the quixotic Mathilde and the loyal Mme de Rênal – which ultimately decides his destiny.

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Stendhal: The Red and the Black (Unabridged)
Work length22:02:39
Book 1: Chapter 1
Track length5:33
You must not for a moment expect…
Track length3:38
Chapter 2
Track length3:32
This young cleric was sent from Besancon…
Track length4:09
Chapter 3
Track length5:17
The reproaches of M. de Renal…
Track length4:36
This sudden decision plunged Madame de Renal deep in thought…
Track length3:56
Chapter 4
Track length4:05
As he approached his mill, Pere Sorel called Julien in his stentorian voice…
Track length5:45
Chapter 5
Track length5:47
'What!' M. de Renal indignantly exclaimed…
Track length6:32
To Julien, making a fortune meant in the first place leaving Verrieres…
Track length5:57
Chapter 6
Track length4:23
Never in her life had a purely agreeable sensation…
Track length4:09
Julien plucked up his courage again during this long speech…
Track length4:56
'What think you of this new acquisition?' M. de Renal asked his wife…
Track length5:30
Chapter 7
Track length4:58
Madame de Renal felt ashamed of this way of looking at things…
Track length4:11
After many long years, Madame de Renal…
Track length4:50
This outburst left Madame de Renal pale…
Track length5:33
'I was thinking, Sir,' he said to him one day…
Track length4:27
Julien knew nothing apart from these matters…
Track length4:04
Chapter 8
Track length5:13
Julien replied to these fresh remonstrances…
Track length4:45
Madame de Renal tried to work…
Track length4:59
As it is our intention to flatter no one…
Track length5:34
Chapter 9
Track length5:18
When Madame Derville repeated her suggestion…
Track length5:29
Despite the wisdom of these reflections…
Track length5:22
'It is a secret!' repeated Madame de Renal…
Track length5:05
Chapter 10
Track length3:58
Julien made a speedy escape and climbed up among the big woods…
Track length3:57
Chapter 11
Track length5:50
His kisses, filled with passion…
Track length6:31
Chapter 12
Track length5:53
'Since my husband, who does not know…'
Track length5:19
Julien related to him, with suitable omissions…
Track length5:36
Chapter 13
Track length4:21
Julien was struck by her quavering voice and by the look in her eyes…
Track length5:21
The sudden resolution he had just made formed a pleasing distraction…
Track length4:13
Chapter 14
Track length3:49
Madame de Renal could not get over her astonishment …
Track length4:36
Chapter 15
Track length4:14
Julien had every right to praise his own courage…
Track length5:05
Chapter 16
Track length5:33
The foolish idea of his being regarded as a servile lover…
Track length6:29
Chapter 17
Track length5:51
In the foreground appeared the highly complicated intrigues…
Track length6:03
Chapter 18
Track length5:28
The work of organising the Guard of Honour…
Track length5:56
There was one person happier than he…
Track length5:28
This melancholy splendour, degraded by the intrusion…
Track length5:26
'It is quite clear,' said Julien, at last venturing to understand…
Track length5:29
'This Marquis would not be polite like my dear Bishop,' he thought…
Track length6:07
Chapter 19
Track length5:24
'Avoid my presence,' she said to Julien one day…
Track length5:30
'That is all that I ask,' she cried, rising to her feet…
Track length5:49
This great moral crisis changed the nature of the sentiment…
Track length4:51
Chapter 20
Track length5:20
'Do not go and quarrel with M. Valenod…'
Track length4:46
Chapter 21
Track length6:30
'I am used to Louise,' he said to himself, 'she knows all my affairs…'
Track length5:46
'God! Why is not my wife dead!'
Track length5:45
'You speak like the fool that you are,' cried M. de Renal…
Track length5:48
Madame de Renal meanwhile had run up…
Track length5:43
This threat was uttered with gladness…
Track length5:43
Chapter 22
Track length4:52
His missive dispatched…
Track length5:53
This was too much for Julien…
Track length5:51
Before leaving the house Julien received four or five invitations…
Track length5:28
'You aristocrats, you have every reason to be proud,' he said…
Track length5:19
M. Valenod was what is called, a hundred leagues from Paris…
Track length5:53
Chapter 23
Track length5:21
Julien did not fail to attend the auction…
Track length5:48
'Signor Zingarelli,' went on the young singer…
Track length5:21
One thing astonished Julien: the weeks of solitude spent at Verrieres…
Track length4:27
On the morning after his return, at six o'clock…
Track length5:28
M. de Renal presently returned; he was beside himself…
Track length5:09
Cruel necessity, with its hand of iron, bent Julien's will…
Track length4:52
Chapter 24
Track length5:39
Julien, lost in thought, was comparing…
Track length5:20
Amanda observed his courage; it formed a charming contrast…
Track length5:36
Chapter 25
Track length5:02
Julien advanced with an uncertain step…
Track length5:04
He looked upwards and made the sign of the Cross…
Track length4:38
'This is a bold and healthy mind,' he said to himself…
Track length4:35
Chapter 26
Track length5:58
Having half mastered these several truths…
Track length5:40
The moment that Julien became aware of his own folly…
Track length5:38
What pains did he not take to arrive at that expression…
Track length5:39
Julien percieved the immensity of the danger…
Track length3:29
Chapter 27
Track length5:18
No sooner had M. Castanede gone up to his own room…
Track length4:16
Chapter 28
Track length3:55
Next morning at daybreak, Julien made his way to the Cathedral…
Track length5:21
'At last, he is going to tell me his secret,' thought Julien…
Track length5:11
His distraction was nevertheless half conquered…
Track length4:30
Chapter 29
Track length5:31
But why speak of his friends, his enemies?
Track length3:49
On the first day, the examiners appointed…
Track length5:39
Despite his brilliant existence in Paris…
Track length5:16
Without knowing it, the stern abbe Pirard loved this Seminary…
Track length5:08
Julien was silently watching the abbe…
Track length5:57
The prelate, growing more and more pleased…
Track length3:50
On the following morning, Julien detected something strange…
Track length5:41
Chapter 30
Track length6:22
Some time after this, Julien received a letter in an unknown hand…
Track length5:21
The most prudent course was to retire…
Track length5:07
'I am going to draw up the ladder,' he said…
Track length5:31
Without a thought of what he was telling her…
Track length5:55
Madame de Renal could refuse nothing in the face of this idea…
Track length4:53
In telling Julien of the incident of the ladder…
Track length5:13
While Julien was devouring his supper with a keen appetite…
Track length4:48
Book 2: Chapter 1
Track length4:54
A pious old peasant woman's cow dies…
Track length4:47
The discussion was endless…
Track length4:20
'If after a few months you are of no use to him…'
Track length5:21
'It seems to me,' said Julien, blushing deeply…
Track length5:11
'I, for example, a peaceable and insignificant man…'
Track length5:05
Chapter 2
Track length6:29
'You are perhaps going to become a fop,' the abbé said to him…
Track length6:19
The men assembled in this drawing-room…
Track length3:42
The Marquis must have spoken of the kind of education…
Track length4:55
Chapter 3
Track length4:10
On the following day Julien attended two lectures on theology…
Track length4:06
Chapter 4
Track length5:29
It was for this reason that Julien sometimes remained to the end…
Track length5:00
Mademoiselle de La Mole was the centre of a little group…
Track length5:59
Julien quitted the circle round the sofa…
Track length5:29
Julien felt a sting of irritation, and yet she was right…
Track length5:12
'The Marquis does not like scribblers, I warn you…
Track length5:38
Chapter 5
Track length7:18
Chapter 6
Track length5:40
'This is my name,' said the man of fashion…
Track length5:21
One thing astonished Julien vastly…
Track length5:47
Chapter 7
Track length5:01
M. de La Mole became interested in this singular character…
Track length5:29
Some time after this, the Marquis was at length able to leave…
Track length5:17
'Not bad,' said the Marquis, with a laugh…
Track length5:48
Chapter 8
Track length5:36
'I know to whom I am indebted for such kindness,' replied Julien…
Track length5:31
'You can tell me, Sir, as you have been here all the winter,' she said…
Track length5:43
'What fault would anyone have to find with my remark?'
Track length4:43
A swarm of young men with moustaches had gathered round…
Track length4:42
Chapter 9
Track length4:45
The crowd was immense…
Track length4:07
Mademoiselle de La Mole, entirely forgetting what she owed…
Track length5:05
Julien was on a pinnacle of happiness…
Track length4:39
'It is quite true,' he said to himself…
Track length5:38
Chapter 10
Track length4:31
'Let us take a turn in the garden,' said the Academician…
Track length7:16
In course of time his conversations with this girl…
Track length5:02
This state of affairs, and the singular doubts which Julien felt…
Track length4:16
Chapter 11
Track length4:33
Mathilde's vivid, picturesque point of view affected her speech…
Track length5:49
Chapter 12
Track length4:27
These last words made her pensive again…
Track length5:09
Obedient as Norbert was, his sister's meaning was so unmistakable…
Track length5:35
Chapter 13
Track length4:30
It was after he had lost himself in dreams…
Track length4:55
He had kept his departure secret…
Track length4:46
'I am very glad you are not going,' the Marquis said to him…
Track length5:20
'Tartuffe also was ruined by a woman…'
Track length4:58
Chapter 14
Track length4:56
A few months since, Mathilde had despaired of meeting anyone…
Track length5:43
Mademoiselle de La Mole's letter had so flattered Julien's vanity…
Track length5:00
Chapter 15
Track length4:09
'At the worst,' Julien told himself finally…
Track length4:27
This brief exonerating memoir, arranged in the form of a tale…
Track length4:21
Chapter 16
Track length5:25
The head of the ladder touched the ground…
Track length5:07
Mathilde, who was still greatly embarrassed…
Track length6:07
Chapter 17
Track length5:29
During the very night after their vow of eternal separation…
Track length6:24
Chapter 18
Track length4:41
Mathilde seemed adorable to him…
Track length4:19
On the preceding days, in the artlessness of his misery…
Track length4:49
Chapter 19
Track length6:20
The result of this night of madness was that she imagined…
Track length5:46
'My death will increase the scorn that she feels for me!' he exclaimed…
Track length6:02
As in the darkness he explored the loose earth with his hand…
Track length5:43
Chapter 20
Track length4:03
The critical observations which he had been making…
Track length5:41
When Julien was able to leave the library…
Track length5:29
Chapter 21
Track length3:51
'One thing that will prevent you from feeling bored on your journey…'
Track length4:38
They arrived in a large room of a distinctly gloomy aspect…
Track length4:59
Chapter 22
Track length5:09
'Politics,' the author resumes…
Track length5:28
'And I shall say to you in the plainest of words…'
Track length4:58
'You, Sir,' M. de La Mole said to the interrupter…
Track length5:51
Chapter 23
Track length6:08
Animated by the debates of so lively an evening…
Track length5:27
The secret note which the Marquis drafted from the long report…
Track length5:20
'You need not be afraid of his waking…'
Track length5:22
Chapter 24
Track length5:34
The Prince found him decidedly melancholy…
Track length4:38
'And now,' the Prince went on as they left the shop…
Track length6:47
Chapter 25
Track length4:21
'When the Marechale flew into a passion…'
Track length4:35
The dinner hour was approaching, he was to see Mathilde again!
Track length4:48
Mathilde had almost forgotten him during his absence…
Track length5:06
Chapter 26
Track length4:12
Some hours later the risen sun surprised him…
Track length5:02
Chapter 27
Track length4:30
Like everyone of inferior intelligence whom chance brings into touch…
Track length4:12
Chapter 28
Track length6:04
Throughout the time usurped in Julien's life by the Fervaques episode…
Track length4:58
Chapter 29
Track length4:51
One morning, the porter brought to him…
Track length4:10
Chapter 30
Track length5:44
'Failing any other sentiment, gratitude would suffice…'
Track length6:19
Chapter 31
Track length3:35
He paced up and down his little room, wild with joy…
Track length4:07
It was beside a bower of honeysuckle…
Track length5:02
Chapter 32
Track length4:17
'I mean to write to my father,' Mathilde said to him one day…
Track length4:40
I dread, for Julien, your anger, apparently so righteous…
Track length4:38
Chapter 33
Track length4:49
The genius of Tartuffe came to Julien's aid…
Track length4:01
As Julien did not in any way alter his air of cold astonishment…
Track length4:43
Chapter 34
Track length4:49
In a moment of ill humour she wrote to her father…
Track length6:37
Forced by his daughter's letter, M. de La Mole…
Track length6:23
Chapter 35
Track length4:40
His impassive air, his severe and almost cruel eyes…
Track length4:52
'Where is Madame de Renal's letter?' said Julien coldly…
Track length5:21
Chapter 36
Track length4:17
A magistrate appeared in the prison…
Track length5:31
About nine o'clock in the evening…
Track length4:28
This man was as menial and submissive as possible…
Track length4:09
Chapter 37
Track length5:17
Fouque arrived; the simple, honest fellow was shattered by grief…
Track length6:09
Chapter 38
Track length5:11
Mathilde went alone and on foot through the streets of Besancon…
Track length5:35
'Everything becomes clear,' she thought…
Track length4:55
Chapter 39
Track length5:04
Ambition was dead in his heart, another passion had risen…
Track length6:15
Chapter 40
Track length4:51
At the sight of these lines, M. de Frilair was almost out of his mind…
Track length5:43
Chapter 41
Track length5:07
On entering the court, he was struck by the elegance…
Track length4:44
This thought obliterated all the rest…
Track length3:59
For twenty minutes Julien continued to speak in this strain…
Track length4:37
Chapter 42
Track length5:11
At this moment Julien was playing upon Mathilde's nature…
Track length3:31
Mathilde kept on saying to him in a faint voice…
Track length5:38
Chapter 43
Track length6:07
'Very well! You swear, by the love that you bear me…'
Track length6:32
Chapter 44
Track length4:59
The old man's severe reproaches began as soon as they were left…
Track length5:03
'There is no such thing as "natural law"…'
Track length5:30
He was disturbed by all his memories of that Bible…
Track length4:44
Chapter 45
Track length4:52
The death of M. de Croisenois altered all Julien's ideas…
Track length4:13
'Your conversion would strike an echo in their hearts…'
Track length4:10
Two days earlier, he had said to Fouque…
Track length4:59
To The Happy Few…
Track length0:45
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