The Charterhouse of Parma

LibriVox recording of The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal. (Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff.) Read in English by Peter Dann; In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological realism with wit, irony and romance, in only 54 days. The result, which Henry James regarded as one of the dozen best novels of all time, feels in many ways like grand opera, an art form to which Stendhal himself was greatly attracted. The tale is set in northern Italy in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The plot rev