Charterhouse of Parma, The - Softcover

Stendhal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055321389X ISBN 13: 9780553213898

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1990

Synopsis

Young Fabrizio struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Pearson is Fellow and Praelector in French at The Queen's College, Oxford, and the author of Stendhal's Violin: A Novelist and his Reader (Clarendon Press, 1988), and The Fables of Reason: A Study of Voltaire's 'contes philosophiques' (Clarendon Press, 1990). He has translated and edited Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories (1988), and Zola, La Bete humaine (1996), and revised and edited Thomas Walton's translation of Zola's The Masterpiece (1993), all for World's Classics. Margaret Mauldon holds a doctorate in French from the University of Massachusetts. She has taught French at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. She has been working as a freelance translator since 1987, and her translation of Zola's L'Assommoir is published in World's Classics.

Review:

A fine translation. * Duncan Wu, The Independent *

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 055321389X
• ISBN 13: 9780553213898
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 480