Stendhal: The Red and the Black (unabridged)
Read by Bill Homewood
- Release Date: 27th Sep 2010
- Catalogue No: NAB39812
- Label: Naxos AudioBooks
- Series: Complete Classics
- Length: 22 hours 2 minutes
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Stendhal: The Red and the Black (Unabridged)
Book 1: Chapter 1
You must not for a moment expect…
Chapter 2
This young cleric was sent from Besancon…
Chapter 3
The reproaches of M. de Renal…
This sudden decision plunged Madame de Renal deep in thought…
Chapter 4
As he approached his mill, Pere Sorel called Julien in his stentorian voice…
Chapter 5
'What!' M. de Renal indignantly exclaimed…
To Julien, making a fortune meant in the first place leaving Verrieres…
Chapter 6
Never in her life had a purely agreeable sensation…
Julien plucked up his courage again during this long speech…
'What think you of this new acquisition?' M. de Renal asked his wife…
Chapter 7
Madame de Renal felt ashamed of this way of looking at things…
After many long years, Madame de Renal…
This outburst left Madame de Renal pale…
'I was thinking, Sir,' he said to him one day…
Julien knew nothing apart from these matters…
Chapter 8
Julien replied to these fresh remonstrances…
Madame de Renal tried to work…
As it is our intention to flatter no one…
Chapter 9
When Madame Derville repeated her suggestion…
Despite the wisdom of these reflections…
'It is a secret!' repeated Madame de Renal…
Chapter 10
Julien made a speedy escape and climbed up among the big woods…
Chapter 11
His kisses, filled with passion…
Chapter 12
'Since my husband, who does not know…'
Julien related to him, with suitable omissions…
Chapter 13
Julien was struck by her quavering voice and by the look in her eyes…
The sudden resolution he had just made formed a pleasing distraction…
Chapter 14
Madame de Renal could not get over her astonishment …
Chapter 15
Julien had every right to praise his own courage…
Chapter 16
The foolish idea of his being regarded as a servile lover…
Chapter 17
In the foreground appeared the highly complicated intrigues…
Chapter 18
The work of organising the Guard of Honour…
There was one person happier than he…
This melancholy splendour, degraded by the intrusion…
'It is quite clear,' said Julien, at last venturing to understand…
'This Marquis would not be polite like my dear Bishop,' he thought…
Chapter 19
'Avoid my presence,' she said to Julien one day…
'That is all that I ask,' she cried, rising to her feet…
This great moral crisis changed the nature of the sentiment…
Chapter 20
'Do not go and quarrel with M. Valenod…'
Chapter 21
'I am used to Louise,' he said to himself, 'she knows all my affairs…'
'God! Why is not my wife dead!'
'You speak like the fool that you are,' cried M. de Renal…
Madame de Renal meanwhile had run up…
This threat was uttered with gladness…
Chapter 22
His missive dispatched…
This was too much for Julien…
Before leaving the house Julien received four or five invitations…
'You aristocrats, you have every reason to be proud,' he said…
M. Valenod was what is called, a hundred leagues from Paris…
Chapter 23
Julien did not fail to attend the auction…
'Signor Zingarelli,' went on the young singer…
One thing astonished Julien: the weeks of solitude spent at Verrieres…
On the morning after his return, at six o'clock…
M. de Renal presently returned; he was beside himself…
Cruel necessity, with its hand of iron, bent Julien's will…
Chapter 24
Julien, lost in thought, was comparing…
Amanda observed his courage; it formed a charming contrast…
Chapter 25
Julien advanced with an uncertain step…
He looked upwards and made the sign of the Cross…
'This is a bold and healthy mind,' he said to himself…
Chapter 26
Having half mastered these several truths…
The moment that Julien became aware of his own folly…
What pains did he not take to arrive at that expression…
Julien percieved the immensity of the danger…
Chapter 27
No sooner had M. Castanede gone up to his own room…
Chapter 28
Next morning at daybreak, Julien made his way to the Cathedral…
'At last, he is going to tell me his secret,' thought Julien…
His distraction was nevertheless half conquered…
Chapter 29
But why speak of his friends, his enemies?
On the first day, the examiners appointed…
Despite his brilliant existence in Paris…
Without knowing it, the stern abbe Pirard loved this Seminary…
Julien was silently watching the abbe…
The prelate, growing more and more pleased…
On the following morning, Julien detected something strange…
Chapter 30
Some time after this, Julien received a letter in an unknown hand…
The most prudent course was to retire…
'I am going to draw up the ladder,' he said…
Without a thought of what he was telling her…
Madame de Renal could refuse nothing in the face of this idea…
In telling Julien of the incident of the ladder…
While Julien was devouring his supper with a keen appetite…
Book 2: Chapter 1
A pious old peasant woman's cow dies…
The discussion was endless…
'If after a few months you are of no use to him…'
'It seems to me,' said Julien, blushing deeply…
'I, for example, a peaceable and insignificant man…'
Chapter 2
'You are perhaps going to become a fop,' the abbé said to him…
The men assembled in this drawing-room…
The Marquis must have spoken of the kind of education…
Chapter 3
On the following day Julien attended two lectures on theology…
Chapter 4
It was for this reason that Julien sometimes remained to the end…
Mademoiselle de La Mole was the centre of a little group…
Julien quitted the circle round the sofa…
Julien felt a sting of irritation, and yet she was right…
'The Marquis does not like scribblers, I warn you…
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
'This is my name,' said the man of fashion…
One thing astonished Julien vastly…
Chapter 7
M. de La Mole became interested in this singular character…
Some time after this, the Marquis was at length able to leave…
'Not bad,' said the Marquis, with a laugh…
Chapter 8
'I know to whom I am indebted for such kindness,' replied Julien…
'You can tell me, Sir, as you have been here all the winter,' she said…
'What fault would anyone have to find with my remark?'
A swarm of young men with moustaches had gathered round…
Chapter 9
The crowd was immense…
Mademoiselle de La Mole, entirely forgetting what she owed…
Julien was on a pinnacle of happiness…
'It is quite true,' he said to himself…
Chapter 10
'Let us take a turn in the garden,' said the Academician…
In course of time his conversations with this girl…
This state of affairs, and the singular doubts which Julien felt…
Chapter 11
Mathilde's vivid, picturesque point of view affected her speech…
Chapter 12
These last words made her pensive again…
Obedient as Norbert was, his sister's meaning was so unmistakable…
Chapter 13
It was after he had lost himself in dreams…
He had kept his departure secret…
'I am very glad you are not going,' the Marquis said to him…
'Tartuffe also was ruined by a woman…'
Chapter 14
A few months since, Mathilde had despaired of meeting anyone…
Mademoiselle de La Mole's letter had so flattered Julien's vanity…
Chapter 15
'At the worst,' Julien told himself finally…
This brief exonerating memoir, arranged in the form of a tale…
Chapter 16
The head of the ladder touched the ground…
Mathilde, who was still greatly embarrassed…
Chapter 17
During the very night after their vow of eternal separation…
Chapter 18
Mathilde seemed adorable to him…
On the preceding days, in the artlessness of his misery…
Chapter 19
The result of this night of madness was that she imagined…
'My death will increase the scorn that she feels for me!' he exclaimed…
As in the darkness he explored the loose earth with his hand…
Chapter 20
The critical observations which he had been making…
When Julien was able to leave the library…
Chapter 21
'One thing that will prevent you from feeling bored on your journey…'
They arrived in a large room of a distinctly gloomy aspect…
Chapter 22
'Politics,' the author resumes…
'And I shall say to you in the plainest of words…'
'You, Sir,' M. de La Mole said to the interrupter…
Chapter 23
Animated by the debates of so lively an evening…
The secret note which the Marquis drafted from the long report…
'You need not be afraid of his waking…'
Chapter 24
The Prince found him decidedly melancholy…
'And now,' the Prince went on as they left the shop…
Chapter 25
'When the Marechale flew into a passion…'
The dinner hour was approaching, he was to see Mathilde again!
Mathilde had almost forgotten him during his absence…
Chapter 26
Some hours later the risen sun surprised him…
Chapter 27
Like everyone of inferior intelligence whom chance brings into touch…
Chapter 28
Throughout the time usurped in Julien's life by the Fervaques episode…
Chapter 29
One morning, the porter brought to him…
Chapter 30
'Failing any other sentiment, gratitude would suffice…'
Chapter 31
He paced up and down his little room, wild with joy…
It was beside a bower of honeysuckle…
Chapter 32
'I mean to write to my father,' Mathilde said to him one day…
I dread, for Julien, your anger, apparently so righteous…
Chapter 33
The genius of Tartuffe came to Julien's aid…
As Julien did not in any way alter his air of cold astonishment…
Chapter 34
In a moment of ill humour she wrote to her father…
Forced by his daughter's letter, M. de La Mole…
Chapter 35
His impassive air, his severe and almost cruel eyes…
'Where is Madame de Renal's letter?' said Julien coldly…
Chapter 36
A magistrate appeared in the prison…
About nine o'clock in the evening…
This man was as menial and submissive as possible…
Chapter 37
Fouque arrived; the simple, honest fellow was shattered by grief…
Chapter 38
Mathilde went alone and on foot through the streets of Besancon…
'Everything becomes clear,' she thought…
Chapter 39
Ambition was dead in his heart, another passion had risen…
Chapter 40
At the sight of these lines, M. de Frilair was almost out of his mind…
Chapter 41
On entering the court, he was struck by the elegance…
This thought obliterated all the rest…
For twenty minutes Julien continued to speak in this strain…
Chapter 42
At this moment Julien was playing upon Mathilde's nature…
Mathilde kept on saying to him in a faint voice…
Chapter 43
'Very well! You swear, by the love that you bear me…'
Chapter 44
The old man's severe reproaches began as soon as they were left…
'There is no such thing as "natural law"…'
He was disturbed by all his memories of that Bible…
Chapter 45
The death of M. de Croisenois altered all Julien's ideas…
'Your conversion would strike an echo in their hearts…'
Two days earlier, he had said to Fouque…
To The Happy Few…
