The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)
Stendhal
Language: English
Pages: 560
ISBN: 0140449663
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Headstrong and naïve, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory. Finally heeding advice, Fabrizio sneaks back to Milan, only to become embroiled in a series of amorous exploits, fuelled by his impetuous nature and the political chicanery of his aunt Gina and her wily lover. Judged by Balzac to be the most important French novel of its time, The Charterhouse of Parma is a compelling novel of extravagance and daring, blending the intrigues of the Italian court with the romance and excitement of youth.
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monsignore, and he was only too happy about that, as were all his fellows, for a proverb had caught on in the establishment: you only needed to look Monsignor del Dongo in the face for him to give you some money. Fabrizio had become very pale. The complete lack of exercise was damaging his health. That apart, he had never been so happy. The tone of the conversations between himself and Clelia was intimate and sometimes very light-hearted. The only moments of Clelia's life that were not beset by
just addressed Gonzo. Charmed by this success, the latter rediscovered all his eloquence and found it as much a pleasure as his duty to enter into endless detail with her. The young Anetta Marini had paid up to a sequin for the place that was reserved for her at the sermon. She always arrived with two of her aunts and her father's former cashier. The places, which she had had reserved from the previous day, had generally been chosen almost facing the pulpit, but a little to one side of the high
a pleasant little old man of sixty-eight, dapple-grey, very polished, very proper, immensely rich but insufficiently noble. It was his grandfather only who had amassed millions from his role as farmer-general of the State of Parma. His father had had himself appointed the prince of Parma's ambassador to the court of ***, the reasoning being as follows: ‘Your Highness grants thirty thousand francs to his envoy to the court of ***, who cuts a very insignificant figure there. If he deigns to give me
death bewitched Father Landriani. At the time of the thirteen-week penitence, Count Mosca, out of pity and a little mischievously, invited him to dine once or even twice a week. The good archbishop, to curry favour, dined like everyone else. He'd have thought it constituted a rebellion or Jacobinism to flaunt an act of penitence for an action approved by the sovereign. But it was learnt that, for every dinner at which his duty as a loyal subject had obliged him to eat like everyone else, he
beforehand that the end of the gun was more than three inches above Giletti's shoulder; the detonation took place right beside the latter's ear. He was left somewhat startled but recovered in a trice. ‘Oh, so you want to blow my brains out, you scum! I'm going to put paid to you!’ Giletti threw aside the scabbard from his marchese's sword and fell on Fabrizio with admirable rapidity. The latter had no weapon and thought he was done for. He ran off towards the carriage, which had stopped a dozen
