Letters to Pauline (Hesperus Classics)
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Determined to take his deeply loved younger sister Paulineâs education in hand, Henri Beyleâbetter known by the most famous of his scores of noms de plume, Stendhalâwas obliged to continue her tuition in epistolary fashion on leaving Grenoble. In his letters to her he instructs her in what she should read (Plutarch, Molière, and Shakespeare); what to study (philosophy, logic, mathematics, and music); whether or not to get married (and to what kind of man); and generally how to enliven the tedium of a French provincial town. At the same time, he encourages her to think for herselfâa process that, inevitably, reveals what he thought when thinking for himself.