This work mirrors, rather than paints, revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy.
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This work mirrors, rather than paints, revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy.
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