The Two Sides of a Man. "Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm, it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly, so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought." A French lowborn, Julien Sorel wants more for himself than what life gave him. So he starts to slowly climb the social ladder using his keen intelligence, from an acolyte of the Church and tutor of a wealthy family to a private secretary of a diplomat. His past mistakes, however, will forever haunt him.
