Letters to Pauline

By Stendhal

Determined to take his deeply loved younger sister Pauline's education in hand, Henri 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, Moli re, and Shakespeare); what to study (philosophy, logic, mathematics, and music); whether or not to get married (and to what kind of man); and generally how to enliven 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843911671
• ISBN13: 9781843911678
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 7.4"