The Red and the Black, Volume I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Red and the Black, Volume I, credited to Stendhal, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Red and the Black, Volume I, by Stendhal. Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't seem to fit a defined genre. Some say he's a Romantic, others that he's a Modernist and that Le Rouge et Le Noir is the first modern novel. On one point they are all agreed: the novel is a masterpiece that shows a young theology student - Julien Sorel - intelligent, handsome and who is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins. Stendhal presents the reader with a satirical plot that will involve you in passions, intrigues, last-minute reversals and, mostly, the hypocrisy by which society operates. (Summary by sailormoon)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Red and the Black, Volume I
• Author credits: Stendhal
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 9:12:07

Catalogue topics

• individualism
• passion
• pursuit of happiness
• intrigue.

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Introduction — 23:22
2. 01 - A Small Town — 8:54
3. 02 - A Mayor — 7:55
4. 03 - The Poor Fund — 11:39
5. 04 - A Father and a Son — 8:52
6. 05 - A Negotiation — 18:57
7. 06 - Ennui — 17:43
8. 07 - The Effective Affinities — 26:52
9. 08 - Little Episodes — 19:21
10. 09 - An Evening in the Country — 19:26
11. 10 - A Great Heart and a Small Fortune — 7:56
12. 11 - An Evening — 13:02
13. 12 - A Journey — 14:56
14. 13 - The Open Work Stocking — 12:32
15. 14 - The English Scissors — 7:14
16. 15 - The Cock's Song — 9:05
17. 16 - The day After — 11:42
18. 17 - The First Deputy — 10:53
19. 18 - A King at Verrieres — 30:06
20. 19 - Thinking Produces Suffering — 20:39
21. 20 - Anonymous Letters — 8:41
22. 21 - Dialogue with a Master — 29:36
23. 22 - Manners of Procedure — 29:38
24. 23 - Sorrows of an Official — 31:08

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