Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle]; Henri Martineau [editor] — Correspondance

Paris, Le Divan, 1933-1934. Hardback. A complete ten volume set of this limited edition collection of the correspondence of the French writer known as Stendhal, in the original French. French. Complete in ten volumes. Limited to one-thousand eight-hundred and twenty-five copies, of which this is number five hundred and twenty-five. The correspondence of Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the foremost practitioners of realism. Stendhal used many aliases in his autobiographical writings and correspondence, and often assigned pseudonyms to friends. It is believed that he used more than one-hundred pseudonyms, which were astonishingly diverse and usually comic to appear even more bourgeois than he truly was. One of his correspondents, Prosper Merimee, said "He never wrote a letter without signing a false name." Volume one contains letters from 1800-1805. Volume two contains letters from 1805-1808. Volume three contains letters from 1808-1811. Volume four contains letters from 1812-1816. Volume five contains letters from 1816-1820. Volume six contains letters from 1821-1830. Volume seven contains letters from 1830-1832. Volume eight contains letters from 1832-1834. Volume nine contains letters from 1834-1836. Volume ten contains letters from 1836-1842. Edited with a preface by Henri Martineau, a French literary critic and journalist. Bound in half calf with marbled boards with the original paper wraps bound in. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .