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... Stendhal used to read a page of the Napoleonic Code to clarify his style before commencing work . Maugham confesses to having used Candide as a similar touchstone . No more salutary discipline could be recommended the young writer of ...
... Stendhal used to read a page of the Napoleonic Code to clarify his style before commencing work . Maugham confesses to having used Candide as a similar touchstone . No more salutary discipline could be recommended the young writer of ...
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... Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve , who needed only to look into his own heart to discover what contrary qualities could exist side by side in some kind of harmony , took him to ...
... Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve , who needed only to look into his own heart to discover what contrary qualities could exist side by side in some kind of harmony , took him to ...
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... Stendhal got the idea for it from an incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed his mistress , was tried and guil- lotined . But Stendhal put into Julien Sorel , his hero , not only a great deal of himself ...
... Stendhal got the idea for it from an incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed his mistress , was tried and guil- lotined . But Stendhal put into Julien Sorel , his hero , not only a great deal of himself ...
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