Stendhal

Stendhal was the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), a French novelist and one of the pioneers of literary realism. His books and audiobooks include The Red and the Black, a masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction that follows the ambitious young Julien Sorel as he navigates love, class and politics in post-Napoleonic France. Stendhal's psychological insight and social acuity have influenced generations of writers, and his audiobooks bring his penetrating, eternally relevant fiction to modern listeners.