Stendhal's The Red and the Black follows the rise and unraveling of Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man determined to escape the limits of his birth in post-Napoleonic France. At once a psychological portrait and a sharp social novel, it explores class, vanity, desire, hypocrisy, and the cost of turning life into a ladder to be climbed.
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