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The Red and the Black

Theme Pillar

The book from top to bottom, chapter by chapter, in narrative order. Each mark is a theme that the chapter develops. Tap a theme to follow only its thread.

Book I

Chapter 1 A small town
Chapter 2 A mayor
Chapter 3 A curé
Chapter 4 A father and a son
Chapter 5 A negotiation
Chapter 6 Boredom
Chapter 7 Elective affinities
Chapter 8 Small events
Chapter 9 A night in the country
Chapter 10 A great heart
Chapter 11 A night
Chapter 12 A journey
Chapter 13 The lace stockings
Chapter 14 The English scissors
Chapter 15 The crowing of the rooster
Chapter 16 The next day
Chapter 17 The deputy mayor
Chapter 18 A king in Verrières
Chapter 19 To think is to suffer
Chapter 20 The anonymous letters
Chapter 21 Dialogue with a master
Chapter 22 Ways of acting in 1830
Chapter 23 A civil servant's woes
Chapter 24 A capital
Chapter 25 The seminary
Chapter 26 The World, or What the Rich Man Lacks
Chapter 27 First experience of life
Chapter 28 A procession
Chapter 29 The first promotion
Chapter 30 An ambitious man

Book II

Chapter 1 The pleasures of the country
Chapter 2 Entry into society
Chapter 3 The first steps
Chapter 4 The La Mole mansion
Chapter 5 Sensibility and a Devout Great Lady
Chapter 6 Manner of pronunciation
Chapter 7 A gout attack
Chapter 8 Which decoration is the most honorable
Chapter 9 The ball
Chapter 10 Queen Margaret
Chapter 11 The empire of a young woman
Chapter 12 He'll be a Danton
Chapter 13 A conspiracy
Chapter 14 Thoughts of a young woman
Chapter 15 Will it be a conspiracy?
Chapter 16 One in the morning
Chapter 17 An old sword
Chapter 18 Cruel moments
Chapter 19 The Opéra Bouffe
Chapter 20 The Japanese vase
Chapter 21 The secret note
Chapter 22 The argument
Chapter 23 The Clergy, the Woods, Liberty
Chapter 24 Strasbourg
Chapter 25 The ministry of virtue
Chapter 26 Moral love
Chapter 27 The best positions in the Church
Chapter 28 Manon Lescaut
Chapter 29 Boredom
Chapter 30 A box at the Opéra Bouffe
Chapter 31 To frighten her
Chapter 32 The tiger
Chapter 33 The hell of weakness
Chapter 34 A man of wit
Chapter 35 A storm
Chapter 36 Sad details
Chapter 37 A tower
Chapter 38 A powerful man
Chapter 39 The intrigue
Chapter 40 Tranquility
Chapter 41 The trial
Chapter 42 untitled in the book: Taken to a cell for the condemned, Julien Sorel rehearses what he...
Chapter 43 untitled in the book: An hour later, Julien Sorel wakes with tears running over his hand...
Chapter 44 untitled in the book: Freed from the priest, Julien Sorel weeps because he is going to die,...
Chapter 45 untitled in the book: Julien Sorel asks Fouqué for a Jansenist confessor who cannot be...