Lucien Leuwen by Stendhal

Lucien Leuwen by Stendhal

Set in France, this is a novel of life under the July Monarchy. The hero, Lucien Leuwen, is expelled from the Ecole Polytechnique when suspected of harbouring Republican sympathies. This unfinished work, is one of the most important 19th century French political novels.

Stendhal (1783-1842), the pen name of Henri Marie Beyle, was born into a prosperous family in Grenoble. At sixteen he set out for Paris, intending to pursue a career as an engineer, but instead enlisted in Napoleon's Army. Stendhal took part in campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia, and Austria, and then, after Napoleon's fall from power, settled in Milan, where he wrote books on art and music. Expelled from Italy for political reasons in 1821, he returned to Paris; following the 1830 revolution, he secured the position, which he was to hold for the rest of his life, of French Consul to Civitavecchia. Stendhal's great novels The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) were largely ignored during his lifetime, and many of his works remained unfinished and were published only posthumously. Among his most important books are On Love, Lucien Leuwen, The Memoirs of an Egotist, and The Life of Henry Brulard.

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ISBN 13	9780140445251
ISBN 10	0140445250
Title	Lucien Leuwen
Author	Stendhal
Series	Classics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1991-01-31
Number of pages	560
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