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Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern italy, it traces the joyous but. Richard howard's exuberant and definitive stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in napoleon's army and in the court of parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of european. The charterhouse of parma book.

The charterhouse of parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage.

Sadly, he doesn't realize he's not fit for the army, being swindled and robbed by burglars and his. Sentenced to 20 years in prison, fabrice makes an unexpected connection when he is. Telling the story of an italian nobleman in the napoleonic era and later, it was admired by balzac, tolstoy, andré gide, di lampedusa and henry james. This book is more often called the charterhouse of parma in english, because charterhouse is the english word for a carthusian monastery, whereas chartreuse is the french word.