M. de Rênal is the mayor of a provincial town named Verrières, who hires Julien Sorel as a private teacher for his child. Sorel desires to become a real man and follow the steps of his hero – Napoleon. The young man thinks that it is his duty to seduce the mayor's wife and they become lovers. However, their little secret will soon be revealed. Who will find out about the love affair? What is going to happen with the two lovers? Will mayor M. de Rênal also find out or the truth will be hidden from him? Find all the answers in Stendhal's novel "The Red and the Black" from 1830.

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- Chapter 1: A Small Town
- Chapter 2: A Mayor
- Chapter 3: The Bread of the Poor
- Chapter 4: Father and Son
- Chapter 5: Driving a Bargain
- Chapter 6: Dullness
- Chapter 7: Elective Affinities
- Chapter 8: Minor Events
- Chapter 9: An Evening in the Country
- Chapter 10: A Large Heart and a Small Fortune
- Chapter 11: Night Thoughts
- Chapter 12: A Journey
- Chapter 13: Open-work Stockings
- Chapter 14: The English Scissors
- Chapter 15: Cock-crow
- Chapter 16: The Day After
- Chapter 17: The Principal Deputy
- Chapter 18: A King at Verrieres
- Chapter 19: To Think Is To Be Full of Sorrow
- Chapter 20: The Anonymous Letters
- Chapter 21: Conversation with a Lord and Master
- Chapter 22.: Manners and Customs in 1830
- Chapter 23: The Sorrows of an Official
- Chapter 24: A Capital
- Chapter 25: The Seminary
- Chapter 26: The World, or What the Rich Lack
- Chapter 27: First Experience of Life
- Chapter 28: A Procession
- Chapter 29: The First Step
- Chapter 30: Ambition
- Chapter 1: Country Pleasures
- Chapter 2: First Appearance in Society
- Chapter 3: First Steps
- Chapter 4: The Hotel de La Mole
- Chapter 5: Sensibility and a Pious Lady
- Chapter 6: Pronunciation
- Chapter 7: An Attack of Gout
- Chapter 8: What Is the Decoration that Confers Distinction?
- Chapter 9: The Ball
- Chapter 10: Queen Marguerite
- Chapter 11: The Tyranny of a Girl
- Chapter 12.: Another Danton
- Chapter 13: A Plot
- Chapter 14: A Girl's Thoughts
- Chapter 15: Is it a Plot?
- Chapter 16: One o'clock in the Morning
- Chapter 17: An Old Sword
- Chapter 18: Painful Moments
- Chapter 19: The Opera-Bouffe
- Chapter 20: The Japanese Vase
- Chapter 21: The Secret Note
- Chapter 22: The Discussion
- Chapter 23: The Clergy, their Forests, Liberty
- Chapter 24: Strasbourg
- Chapter 25: The Office of Virtue
- Chapter 26: Moral Love
- Chapter 27: The Best Positions in the Church
- Chapter 28: Manon Lescaut
- Chapter 29: Boredom
- Chapter 30: A Box at the Bouffes
- Chapter 31: Making Her Afraid
- Chapter 32: The Tiger
- Chapter 33: The Torment of the Weak
- Chapter 34: A Man of Spirit
- Chapter 35: A Storm
- Chapter 36: Painful Details
- Chapter 37: A Dungeon
- Chapter 38: A Man of Power
- Chapter 39: Intrigue
- Chapter 40: Tranquillity
- Chapter 41: The Trial
- Chapter 42: In the Prison
- Chapter 43: Last Adieux
- Chapter 44: The Shadow of the Guillotine
- Chapter 45: Exit Julien
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