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- ↑ Wood, Michael (1971). Stendhal . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0801491245.
- ↑ "Books of The Times; Unfinished Stendhal Novel, First Time in English". The New York Times . July 22, 1988. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
- ↑ Wood, Michael (December 8, 1988). "The Horror of Money". The London Review of Books. 10 (22): 13–14. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
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