《红与黑》是十九世纪法国杰出的现实主义作家司汤达的代表作。叙述一个木匠的儿子于连·索黑尔，个性倔强，因精通拉丁文，得为当地市长的家庭教师。他与市长夫人发生了恋情，被迫进了与人世生活隔绝的修道院。修道院的主持人看重他，把他介绍给巴黎的一个侯爵做私人秘书。他又与侯爵的女儿发生恋情，但因阶级的悬殊及反对者的破坏，不能与侯爵小姐正式结婚。于连·索黑尔忿激之下，去暗杀他以前的情人市长夫人。她虽然没有因刺致命，但于连却因此被敌对阶级的忌妒者判处了死刑……

BOOK ONE

 CHAPTER 1 A Small Town

 CHAPTER 2 A Mayor

 CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the Poor

 CHAPTER 4 Father and Son

 CHAPTER 5 Driving a Bargain

 CHAPTER 6 Dullness

 CHAPTER 7 Elective Affinities

 CHAPTER 8 Minor Events

 CHAPTER 9 An Evening in the Country

 CHAPTER 10 A Large Heart and a Small Fortune

 CHAPTER 11 Night Thoughts

 CHAPTER 12 A Journey

 CHAPTER 13 Open-work Stockings

 CHAPTER 14 The English Scissors

 CHAPTER 15 Cock-crow

 CHAPTER 16 The Day After

 CHAPTER 17 The Principal Deputy

 CHAPTER 18 A King at Verri6rcs

 CHAPTER 19 To Think Is to Be Full of Sorrow

 CHAPTER 20 The Anonymous Letters

 CHAPTER 21 Conversation with a Lord and Master

 CHAPTER 22 Manners and Customs in 1830

 CHAPTER 23 The Sorrows of an Official

 CHAPTER 24 A Capital

 CHAPTER 25 The Seminary

 CHAPTER 26 The World, or What the Rich Lack

 CHAPTER 27 First Experience of Life

 CHAPTER 28 A Procession

 CHAPTER 29 The First Step

 CHAPTER 30 Ambition

BOOK TWO 

 CHAPTER 1 Country Pleasures

 CHAPTER 2 First Appearance in Society

 CHAPTER 3 First Steps

 CHAPTER 4 The Hotel de La Mole

 CHAPTER 5 Sensibility and a Pious Lady

 CHAPTER 6 Pronunciation

 CHAPTER 7 An Attack of Gout

 CHAPTER 8 What Is the Decoration that ConfersDistinction？

 CHAPTER 9 The Ball

 CHAPTER 10 Queen Marguerite

 CHAPTER 11 The Tyranny of a Girl

 CHAPTER 12 Another Danton

 CHAPTER 13 A Plot

 CHAPTER 14 A Girl's Thoughts

 CHAPTER 15 Is it a Plot？

 CHAPTER 16 One o'Clock in the Morning

 CHAPTER 17 An Old Sword

 CHAPTER 18 Painful Moments

 CHAPTER 19 The Opera-Bouffe

 CHAPTER 20 The Japanese Vase

 CHAPTER 21 The Secret Note

 CHAPTER 22 The Discussion

 CHAPTER 23 The Clergy, their Forests, Liberty

 CHAPTER 24 Strasbourg 

 CHAPTER 25 The Office of Virtue

 CHAPTER 26 Moral Love

 CHAPTER 27 The Best Positions in the Church

 CHAPTER 28 Manon Lescaut

 CHAPTER 29 Boredom

 CHAPTER 30 A Box at the Bouffes

 CHAPTER 31 Making Her Afraid

 CHAPTER 32 The Tiger

 CHAPTER 33 The Torment of the Weak

 CHAPTER 34 A Man of Spirit

 CHAPTER 35 A Storm

 CHAPTER 36 Painful Details

 CHAPTER 37 A Dungeon

 CHAPTER 38 A Man of Power

 CHAPTER 39 Intrigue

 CHAPTER 40 Tranquillity

 CHAPTER 41 The Trial

 CHAPTER 42 In the Prison

 CHAPTER 43 Last Adieux

 CHAPTER 44 The Shadow of the Guillotine

 CHAPTER 45 Exit Julien

 TO THE HAPPY FEW