Letters to Pauline

Stendhal

Letters to Pauline
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 August 2010
Pages
184
ISBN
9781843911678

Letters to Pauline

Stendhal

Determined to take his deeply loved younger sister Pauline’s education in hand, Henry Beyle - better known by the most famous of his scores of ‘noms de plume’, Stendhal - was obliged to continue her tuition in epistolary fashion on leaving Grenoble. In his letters to her he instructs her in what she should read (Plutarch, Moliere, Shakespeare); what to study (philosophy, logic, mathetmatics, music); whether or not to get married (and to what kind of man), and generally how to enlived the tedium of a french provincial town. At the same time, he encourages her to think for herself - a process that, inevitably, reveals what he thought when thinking for himself.

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