"The fact is, gentlemen, that I no longer loved anything but money. Ah! How I loved it!"
Stendhal's Filippo Ebreo, narrator of a story first published in 1855, recalls his past as a peddler in Venice and a follower of the coalition armies invading France in the wake of Napoleon's defeat.
Genre: short story
Date of English translation: 2012
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