The Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal · 1839 CE · Novel · French · Romantic

Fabrizio del Dongo runs off to join Napoleon and crosses Waterloo without ever grasping the battle he is in. Back in the small despotism of Parma he is taken up by his aunt, drawn into court intrigue, and shut in a tower with a view of the governor's daughter. Politics and passion at the speed of a chase, dictated in fifty-two days.

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