LION FOR LOVE, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF STENDHAL.

ALTER, ROBERT & COSMAN, CAROL; (Stendhal, Henry Beyle about)

ISBN 10: 0465041248 / ISBN 13: 9780465041244

Published by BASIC BOOKS PUBLISHERS, New York, 1979

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VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S13.95) DUST JACKET; dark red spine titles & floral devices to white cloth hard covers.WHITE endpapers.Red & White dust jacket showssilouette portrait of STENHAL.Back panel dj photo shows both authors in park like setting ; Illustrations section; 361+pg pages; Traces the life of the nineteenth century French novelist, attempts to portray his complex personality, and analyzes his major works.

Seller Inventory # 135548

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LION FOR LOVE, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF STENDHAL.
• Publisher: BASIC BOOKS PUBLISHERS, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465041248
• ISBN 13: 9780465041244
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Illustrator: Illustrated by NIETZSCHMANN, J. PHOTO
• Edition: first edition,1p; 10987654321pt line.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Traces the life of the nineteenth century French novelist, attempts to portray his complex personality, and analyzes his major works.

Review

[An] excellent and balanced biography. -- Anita Brookner "Times Literary Supplement"

[An] excellent and balanced biography.--Anita Brookner "Times Literary Supplement "

A "Lion for Love" is a splendid example of a rare and difficult critical genre: a biography which chronicles and interprets development of a character of complex imaginative genius, and at the same time introduces a lucid critical reading of his works.--Julia Epstein "Washington Post Book World "

This excellent short biography...brings out both the charms and the complexities of Stendhal. The tone of the book is discreetly admiring, but ironic enough when need be to remind one of the saving and consummate irony of its subject.--John Sturrock "New York Times Book Review "

The publication of "A Lion for Love", by Robert Alter with the collaboration of his wife, Carol Cosman, supplies at last a fine, perceptive, concise critical biography of Stendhal, written with a clarity and good sense worthy of its subject...Alter and Cosman...wear their erudition with becoming lightness.--John Simon "New Leader "

A "A Lion for Love" is a model of critical biography a fascinating biography of a fascinating man.--Larry McMurty "Washington Star ""

The publication of "A Lion for Love," by Robert Alter with the collaboration of his wife, Carol Cosman, supplies at last a fine, perceptive, concise critical biography of Stendhal, written with a clarity and good sense worthy of its subject...Alter and Cosman...wear their erudition with becoming lightness.--John Simon "New Leader "

A A Lion for Love is a model of critical biography--a fascinating biography of a fascinating man.--Larry McMurty "Washington Star "

The publication of A Lion for Love, by Robert Alter with the collaboration of his wife, Carol Cosman, supplies at last a fine, perceptive, concise critical biography of Stendhal, written with a clarity and good sense worthy of its subject...Alter and Cosman...wear their erudition with becoming lightness.--John Simon "New Leader "

A Lion for Love is a splendid example of a rare and difficult critical genre: a biography which chronicles and interprets development of a character of complex imaginative genius, and at the same time introduces a lucid critical reading of his works.--Julia Epstein "Washington Post Book World "