Word: huntsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...
LUCIEN LEUWEN (BOOK ONE: THE GREEN HUNTSMAN) (388 pp.) - Henri Beyle [Stendhal]-Translated by Louise Varése-New Directions...
...Directions has done it at last-by halves. The Green Huntsman, Book One of the novel, is now issued in a good translation by Louise Varese; Book Two, The Telegraph, is scheduled for this fall...
Surface Scraping. The Green Huntsman is the account of what happens to a -wealthy young Parisian of republican sympathies and aristocratic tastes during a tour as a second lieutenant of lancers in the provincial city of Nancy. From one of Stendhal's many points of view, the book is a simple daguerreotype of provincial French society of the 18305. A tilt of his head and the author's all-but-invisible monocle glitters in mockery of that society. Another glance flickers derisively over the monarchists; the republicans are next, and so on to the army, the middle class...
...candidates are Susan Bittel, Lorna Carey, Pamela Huntsman-Trout, Jane Johnson, and Mary Towle...