《红与黑》是十九世纪*有影响的小说之一,入选*****的中小学生必读书目。主人公于连是小业主的儿子,年轻英俊、精明能干,从小就希望借助个人奋斗跻身**社会。在市长家当家庭教师时,他与市长夫人勾搭成奸,事情败露后被迫离开,进了神学院。经神学院院长**,于连到巴黎给拉莫尔侯爵当私人秘书,并很快得到侯爵的赏识和重用,且赢得了侯爵女儿的芳心。正当踌躇满志之时,他实际上已陷入了****和教会设下的圈套。在教会的策划下,市长夫人被逼写了一封告密信揭发他。于连气愤之极,开枪击伤了市长夫人,*后他被判处死刑上了断头台。该书自出版以来,一直畅销至今,已被译成世界上几十种语言,并多次被改编成电视剧、舞台剧和电影。无论作为语言学习的课本,还是作为通俗的文学读本,《红与黑/世界名著阅读丛书》对当代中国的青少年都将产生积极的影响。为了使读者能够了解英文故事概况,进而提高阅读速度和阅读水平,在每章的开始部分增加了中文导读。

"I will make a last attempt," she said to her maid. "I will speak to M. Ju-lien."
The following day, after breakfast, Madame de Renal indulged in the delightful luxury of pleading her rival's cause, and of seeing Elisa's hand and fortune stubbomly refused for a whole hour.
Julien gradually emerged from his cautiously worded answers, and finished by answering with spirit Madame de Renal's good advice. She could not help being overcome by the torrent of happiness which, after so many days of despair, now inundated her soul. She felt quite ill. When she had recovered and was comfortably in her own room she sent everyone away. She was profoundly astonished.
"Can I be in love with Julien?" she finally said to herself. This discovery, which at any other time would have plunged her into remorse and the deepest agitation, now only produced the effect of a singular, but as it were, indifferent spectacle. Her soul was exhausted by all that she had just gone through, and had no more sensibility to passion left.
Madame de Renal tried to work, and fell into a deep sleep; when she woke up she did not frighten herself so much as she ought to have. She was too happy to be able to see anything wrong in anything. Naive and innocent as she was, this worthy provincial woman had never tortured her soul in her endeavours to extract from it a little sensibility to some new shade of sentiment or unhappiness. Entirely absorbed as she had been before Julien's arrival with that mass of work which falls to the lot of a good mistress of a household away from Paris, Madame de Renal thought of passion in the same way in which we think of a lottery: a certain deception, a happiness sought after by fools.
The dinner bell rang. Madame de Renal blushed violently. She heard the voice of Julien who was bringing in the children. Having grown somewhat adroit since her falling in love, she complained of an awful headache in order to explain her redness.
"That's just like what all women are," answered M. de Renal with a coarse laugh. "Those machines have always got something or other to be put right."
Although she was accustomed to this type of wit, Madame de Renal was shocked by the tone of voice. In order to distract herself, she looked at Julien's physiognomy; he would have pleased her at this particular moment, even if he had been the ugliest man imaginable.
M. de Renal, who always made a point of copying the habits of the gentry of the court, established himself at Vergy in the first fine days of the spring; this is the village rendered celebrated by the tragic adventure of Gabrielle. A hundred paces from the picturesque ruin of the old Gothic church, M. de Renal owns an old chateau with its four towers and a garden designed like the one in the Tuileries with a great many edging verges of box and avenues of chestnut trees which are cut twice in the year. An adjacent field, crowded with apple trees, served for a promenade. Eight or ten magnificent walnut trees were at the end of the orchard. Their immense foliage went as high as perhaps eighty feet.
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**章 小镇
第二章 市长
第三章 穷人的财产
第四章 父亲与儿子
第五章 谈判
第六章 烦闷
第七章 钟情于人
第八章 凡尘俗事
第九章 乡村的一个夜晚
第十章 雄心与小财
第十一章 夜晚的思念
第十二章 一次旅行
第十三章 网眼长袜
第十四章 英国剪刀
第十五章 鸡鸣
第十六章 第二天
第十七章 **副市长
第十八章 国王在维里埃
第十九章 思考使人痛苦
第二十章 匿名信
第二十一章 与主人的谈话
第二十二章 一八三零年的作风女
第二十三章 一位官员的烦恼
第二十四章 **
第二十五章 神学院
第二十六章 人世间,或富人所缺少的
第二十七章 人生的**次体验
第二十八章 迎圣体
第二十九章 **次提升
第三十章 野心勃勃

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