{"product_id":"the-life-of-henry-brulard-isbn-9780940322899","title":"The Life of Henry Brulard","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Life of Henry Brulard\u003c\/i\u003e is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Red and the Black\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Charterhouse of Parma\u003c\/i\u003e. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and bares his rebellious heart. His adored mother, who died when he was only seven; a father devoted only to his own social ambitions; the aunt whose daily cruelties passed for care: these are among the indelible portraits in a work that captures the sights, sounds, places, and characters of Stendhal's youth, its pleasures and sorrows, with preternatural clarity and immediacy. Full of dazzling images and burning emotions, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Henry Brulard\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid memoir that is also an extraordinary work of the imagination.\u003cb\u003eStendhal\u003c\/b\u003e (1783–1842), the pen name of Henri Marie  Beyle, was born into a  prosperous family in Grenoble. At sixteen he set  out for Paris,  intending to pursue a career as an engineer, but  instead enlisted in  Napoleon’s Army. Stendhal took part in campaigns in  Italy, Germany,  Russia, and Austria, and then, after Napoleon’s fall  from power, settled  in Milan,where he wrote books on art and music.  Expelled from Italy for  political reasons in 1821, he returned to  Paris; following the 1830  revolution, he secured the position, which he  was to hold for the rest  of his life, of French Consul to  Civitavecchia. Stendhal’s great novels \u003ci\u003eThe Red and the Black\u003c\/i\u003e (1830) and \u003ci\u003eThe Charterhouse of Parma\u003c\/i\u003e (1839) were largely ignored during his lifetime, and many of his works   remained unfinished and were published only posthumously. Among his  most  important books are \u003ci\u003eOn Love, Lucien Leuwen, The Memoirs of an Egotist,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Henry Brulard.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304315244773,"sku":"NP9780940322899","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322899.jpg?v=1767740230","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-life-of-henry-brulard-isbn-9780940322899","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}