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The Red and the Black is a novel by Stendhal in 1830. Sometimes it is also called a chronicle of the XIX century. The novel reveals the tragic story of Julien Sorel, «in whose soul there is a struggle between natural nobility and dangerous ghosts of ambition». By showing the hero's life, the author simultaneously depicts three social strata of French society after the Revolution of 1793: the bourgeoisie, the clergy, and the nobility.