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<b>Memoirs of an Egotist,</b> Stendhal’s fragmentary autobiographical work, is alert, wry, and perpetually self–questioning. Through a series of apparently random impressions of the political, social, and artistic movements of the world around him, he imbues a range of human experience, from the mundane to the extraordinary, with the significance it deserves. Foreword by Doris Lessing. <p>Containing everything from delightful thumbnail sketches of his friends and colleagues, to lyrical remembrances of gardens and operas and tenderly amused descriptions of tea with London prostitutes, <b>Memoirs of an Egotist</b> is as startling as it is revealing. French writer Stendhal (1783–1842) is most famous for his two realist masterpieces, <b>The Red and the Black</b> and <b>The Charterhouse of Parma.</b></p>