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The Red and the Black, Volume I

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(3,938 Sterne; 40 Bewertungen)

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) (9 hr 12 min)

Chapters

00 - Introduction

23:22

Read by Sandra Luna

01 - A Small Town

8:54

Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet

02 - A Mayor

7:55

Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet

03 - The Poor Fund

11:38

Read by Derrick Coetzee

04- A Father and a Son

8:51

Read by Derrick Coetzee

05 - A Negotiation

18:56

Read by Kirsty Leishman

06 - Ennui

17:42

Read by sganatra81

07 - The Effective Affinities

26:52

Read by Nicole Lee

08 - Little Episodes

19:21

Read by Kirsty Leishman

09 - An Evening in the Country

19:26

Read by Kirsty Leishman

10 - A Great Heart and a Small Fortune

7:55

Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet

11 - An Evening

13:02

Read by Nicole Lee

12 - A Journey

14:56

Read by sganatra81

13 - The Open Work Stocking

12:32

Read by Nicole Lee

14 - The English Scissors

7:14

Read by sganatra81

15 - The Cock's Song

9:05

Read by Kirsty Leishman

16 - The day After

11:42

Read by Nicole Lee

17 - The First Deputy

10:52

Read by sganatra81

18 - A King at Verrieres

30:05

Read by sganatra81

19 - Thinking Produces Suffering

20:38

Read by Kirsty Leishman

20 - Anonymous Letters

8:41

Read by sganatra81

21 - Dialogue with a Master

29:36

Read by sganatra81

22 - Manners of Procedure

29:37

Read by Kirsty Leishman

23 - Sorrows of an Official

31:08

Read by Kirsty Leishman

24 - A Capital

15:05

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

25 - The Seminary

16:51

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

26 - The World, or what the rich lack

23:32

Read by Nicole Lee

27 - First Experience of Life

11:59

Read by Martin Geeson

28 - A Procession

15:49

Read by Nicole Lee

29 - The First Promotion

31:28

Read by Nicole Lee

30 - An Ambitious Man

37:23

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

Bewertungen

Poor narration

(0,5 Sterne)

Very poor narration. I appreciate the narrator's attempt, but it was just too heavily accented. I wasn't able to focus on the story, for I was trying just to understand the words. If you can make it through 20 minutes, maybe it's for you. It's unfortunate, as it's one of my favorite books.

(3 Sterne)

the story is wonderful but the narration is very uneven. I realize there are multiple narrators but a basic requirement of treading a translated novel is that the reader can at least pronounce the original language proper names with a modicum of correctness. Some of the French names were absolutely massacred.

(1,5 Sterne)

The narration is stupendously poor at times and quite unbearable. But battle through the agonising passages and you'll be rewarded.

barely literate readers

(1 Sterne)

Why do you utterly destroy the experience of fine literature by allowing garbage readings? Just disgusting!

fantastic as always!

(5 Sterne)

Librivox never disappoints, thank you so much for the beautiful rendition of this amazing story.

Fascinating!

(4 Sterne)

Great story marred by a few mediocre readers.

good stuff.

(5 Sterne)

Love it so far. Enthralling.