Stendhal : or the pursuit of happiness / by Matthew Josephson.

Includes Appendix: The Stendhal Revival.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463 - 465) and index.

I. Father and son -- II. The struggle for freedom -- III. Alone in Paris -- IV. First voyage to Italy -- V. The apprentice bard -- VI. Mélanie: or the search for love -- VII. The end of innocence -- VIII. Ambition and the countess -- IX. Gina: the Italian interlude -- X. Escape to Italy -- XII. The Italian years: happiness through art -- XIII. Matilda: or the anatomy of love -- XIV. Return to France -- XV. The wit of Paris -- XVI. "Armance" -- XVII. "The reed and the black" -- XVIII. The consul -- XIX. Secret writings -- XX. The eternal tourist -- XXI. "The charter house of parma" -- XXII. "The difficult passage".

"Stendhal was the pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, a major author and minor bureaucrat, whose life spanned the turbulent period from the French Revolution to the July Monarchy, and whose writing helped mark the advent of both Romanticism and realism in French literature." - From encyclopedia.com.

"This book is an attempt to present Stendhal's life and character before the English-reading public as fully as fully and completely as is now possible, in the light of new material compiled up to 1940, which in great measure has not been available previously in English. In performance of this task, admittedly full of perplexities, I have drawn upon compilations of numerous French, Italian, and German scholars, and acknowledge my debt to them. Still more I am indebted to the editors of the elaborately annotated Champion edition of Stendhal's writings (still incomplete in 1940) and of the even more extensive Divan edition (by Martineau), whose versions of the works and letters I have mainly followed. For the paramount thing was to gather in the confidences of Stendhal himself, walking with him through life, as it were, sharing all the variety of his experiences, then, with him, reflecting upon them." - Matthew Josephson, Introduction.