红与黑（英文版）

CHAPTER 1

A Small Town

Put thousands together

Less bad,

But the cage less gay.

HOBBES

The small town of Verrieres may be regarded as one of the most attractive in the Franche-Comte. Its white houses with their high pitched roofs of red tiles are spread over the slope of a hill, the slightest contours of which are indicated by clumps of sturdy chestnuts. The Doubs runs some hundreds of feet below its fortifications, built in times past by the Spaniards, and now in ruins. Verrieres is sheltered on the north by a high mountain, a spur of the Jura. The jagged peaks of the Verra put on a mantle of snow in the first cold days of October. A torrent which comes tearing down from the mountain passes through Verrieres before emptying its waters into the Doubs, and supplies power to a great number of sawmills; this is an extremely simple industry, and procures a certain degree of comfort for the majority of the inhabitants, who are of the peasant rather than of the burgess class. It is not, however, the sawmills that have made this little town rich. It is to the manufacture of printed calicoes, known as Mulhouse stuffs, that it owes the general prosperity which, since the fall of Napoleon, has led to the refacing of almost all the houses in Verrieres.

No sooner has one entered the town than one is startled by the din of a noisy machine of terrifying aspect. A score of weighty hammers, falling with a clang which makes the pavement tremble, are raised aloft by a wheel which the water of the torrent sets in motion. Each of these hammers turns out, daily, I cannot say how many thousands of nails. A bevy of fresh, pretty girls subject to the blows of these enormous hammers, the little scraps of iron which are rapidly transformed into nails. This work, so rough to the outward eye, is one of the industries that most astonish the traveller who ventures for the first time among the mountains that divide France from Switzerland. If, on entering Verrieres, the traveller inquires to whom belongs that fine nail factory which deafens everybody who passes up the main street, he will be told in a drawling accent: ‘Eh! It belongs to the Mayor.’

Provided the traveller halts for a few moments in this main street of Verrieres, which runs from the bank of the Doubs nearly to the summit of the hill, it is a hundred to one that he will see a tall man appear, with a busy, important air.

At the sight of him every hat is quickly raised. His hair is turning grey, and he is dressed in grey. He is a Companion of several Orders, has a high forehead, an aquiline nose, and on the whole his face is not wanting in a certain regularity: indeed, the first impression formed

of it may be that it combines with the dignity of a village mayor that sort of charm which may still be found in a man of forty-eight or fifty. But soon the visitor from Paris is annoyed by a certain air of self-satisfaction and self-sufficiency mingled with a suggestion of limitations and want of originality. One feels, finally, that this man’s talent is confined to securing the exact payment of whatever is owed to him and to postponing payment till the last possible moment when he is the debtor.

司汤达（1783年-1842年）是十九世纪法国杰出的批判现实主义作家。他的一生并不长，不到六十年，而且他在文学上起步很晚，三十几岁才开始发表作品。然而，他却给人类留下了巨大的精神遗产，包括数部长篇，数十个短篇或故事，数百万字的文论、随笔和散文，游记。?他以准确的人物心理分析和凝练的笔法而闻名。他被认为是最重要和最早的现实主义的实践者之一。最有名的作品是《红与黑》（1830）和《巴马修道院》（1839）。

《红与黑》是法国著名作家斯当达的代表作，是欧洲批判现实主义文学的奠基之作。小说围绕主人公于连个人奋斗与最终失败的经历这一主线，广泛展现了“19世纪最初30年间压在法国人民头上的历届政府所带来的社会风气”，反映了19世纪早期法国的政治和社会生活中的一些本质问题。在艺术上。小说以深刻细腻的笔调，广泛运用独白和自由联想等多种艺术手法，充分展示了主人公的心灵空间，挖掘出了主人公深层意识的活动，从而开创了后世“意识流小说”和“心理小说”的先河，斯当达因此被后人称为“现代小说之父”。

Table of Contents

Part One

CHAPTER 1 A Small Town .....................................................002

CHAPTER 2 A Mayor ..............................................................007

CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the Poor ....................................... 011

CHAPTER 4 Father and Son....................................................018

CHAPTER 5 Driving a Bargain ...............................................023

CHAPTER 6 Dullness ...............................................................033

CHAPTER 7 Elective Affinities .............................................. 043

CHAPTER 8 Minor Events ......................................................057

CHAPTER 9 An Evening in the Country .............................. 067

CHAPTER 10 A Large Heart and a Small Fortune ............... 078

CHAPTER 11 Night Thoughts ................................................083

CHAPTER 12 A Journey .........................................................089

CHAPTER 13 Open-work Stockings .....................................098

CHAPTER 14 The English Scissors ........................................105

CHAPTER 15 Cock-crow ....................................................... 109

CHAPTER 16 The Day After ................................................... 114

CHAPTER 17 The Principal Deputy ......................................120

CHAPTER 18 A King at Verrieres .......................................... 126

CHAPTER 19 To Think Is To Be Full of Sorrow .................. 143

CHAPTER 20 The Anonymous Letters ................................. 154

CHAPTER 21 Conversation with a Lord and Master............. 159

CHAPTER 22 Manners and Customs in 1830 ......................... 176

CHAPTER 23 The Sorrows of an Official ............................... 192

CHAPTER 24 A Capital ..........................................................210

CHAPTER 25 The Seminary ................................................... 219

CHAPTER 26 The World, or What the Rich Lack ...............228

CHAPTER 27 First Experience of Life ................................... 241

CHAPTER 28 A Procession ................................................... 246

CHAPTER 29 The First Step ................................................... 255

CHAPTER 30 Ambition ...........................................................274

Part Two

CHAPTER 1 Country Pleasures ...............................................298

CHAPTER 2 First Appearance in Society ...............................312

CHAPTER 3 First Steps ............................................................ 322

CHAPTER 4 The Hotel de La Mole ....................................... 327

CHAPTER 5 Sensibility and a Pious Lady ............................... 343

CHAPTER 6 Pronunciation .....................................................347

CHAPTER 7 An Attack of Gout ............................................. 356

CHAPTER 8 What Is the Decoration that Confers Distinction? ........................................................366

CHAPTER 9 The Ball ...............................................................379

CHAPTER 10 Queen Marguerite ............................................ 391

CHAPTER 11 The Tyranny of a Girl ...................................... 401

CHAPTER 12 Another Danton ..............................................406

CHAPTER 13 A Plot ................................................................414

CHAPTER 14 A Girl’s Thoughts ............................................ 426

CHAPTER 15 Is it a Plot? ........................................................434

CHAPTER 16 One o‘Clock in the Morning............................441

CHAPTER 17 An Old Sword ................................................... 450

CHAPTER 18 Painful Moments ..............................................456

CHAPTER 19 The Opera-Bouffe ............................................463

CHAPTER 20 The Japanese Vase ...........................................475

CHAPTER 21 The Secret Note ................................................483

CHAPTER 22 The Discussion ................................................490

CHAPTER 23 The Clergy, their Forests, Liberty .................500

CHAPTER 24 Strasbourg .........................................................511

CHAPTER 25 The Office of Virtue ......................................... 519

CHAPTER 26 Moral Love ....................................................... 528

CHAPTER 27 The Best Positions in the Church ....................533

CHAPTER 28 Manon Lescaut ................................................ 538

CHAPTER 29 Boredom ...........................................................544

CHAPTER 30 A Box at the Bouffes .......................................549

CHAPTER 31 Making Her Afraid ............................................555

CHAPTER 32 The Tiger .......................................................... 561

CHAPTER 33 The Torment of the Weak ...............................568

CHAPTER 34 A Man of Spirit ................................................. 575

CHAPTER 35 A Storm ............................................................. 583

CHAPTER 36 Painful Details ................................................. 590

CHAPTER 37 A Dungeon ........................................................599

CHAPTER 38 A Man of Power ............................................... 605

CHAPTER 39 Intrigue .............................................................. 613

CHAPTER 40 Tranquillity ......................................................619

CHAPTER 41 The Trial........................................................... 624

CHAPTER 42 In the Prison ..................................................... 633

CHAPTER 43 Last Adieux ......................................................640

CHAPTER 44 The Shadow of the Guillotine ........................ 647

CHAPTER 45 Exit Julien ..........................................................657