Stendhal
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #007713
Quarter burgundy cloth, mustard yellow paper boards. Some light wear to tail edges of boards. Red remainder mark to tail edge of text block. Dust jacket has a perforation to fore edge of front cover, light scuff to spine. Stendhal, slave to love and the pursuit of happiness, an elusively attractive figure, is here reanimated in all his triumphs and contradictions. Keates' contagiously readably biography of this great romantic takes us through his career in Napoleon's armies, his many love affairs, his diplomatic postings, and his multiple personas: as a would-be dandy, as a man of the world, as the polemicist extraordinaire, as the theorist of love.
Price: $28.00