French Literature

The Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The opening of this work places the reader squarely in the bustling port of Marseilles in early 1815,…

Twenty years after

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a sprawling historical novel set in the turbulent years of Louis XIV’s early reign, where the…

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Gaston Leroux

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen is a short‑fiction work that sketches 19th‑century Spanish social life through the…

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Maurice Leblanc

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman‑Burglar is a collection of French short stories that…

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s opening places the reader squarely in the early nineteenth‑century world of post‑revolutionary…

Four Arthurian Romances

Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

Four Arthurian Romances gathers the chivalric tales of Chrétien de Troyes, the 12th‑century poet who shaped…

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

The novel is an adventure story set in the late‑nineteenth century, opening with a meticulous portrait of…

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne

The opening places the reader amid an Arctic‑type expedition, where a determined professor, his nephew, and…

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Jules Verne

The work is a science‑fiction adventure that begins by chronicling a worldwide frenzy over a mysterious,…

Cameron of Lochiel

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé

Cameron of Lochiel is a historical romance set against the backdrop of early French‑Canadian life, written by…

Manon Lescaut

abbé Prévost

The work is an eighteenth‑century French adventure romance that begins with a vivid tableau of a bustling…

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic melodrama that intertwines horror, musical intrigue, and Parisian…

The three musketeers

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical adventure set in early‑17th‑century France, intertwining the political turbulence of…

The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty

Alexandre Dumas

The Hero of the People is an historical romance set amid the tumult of the French Revolution, where the drama…

Eloisa: or, A series of original letters

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Eloisa, or, A Series of Original Letters is an epistolary work by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau that unfolds as a…

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur

Maurice Leblanc

Les trois mousquetaires

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2

Anatole France

Anatole France’s two‑volume work on the life of Joan of Arc is a sweeping hagiographic narrative that opens…

Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)

Alexandre Dumas

Camille is a French‑language novel that blends romance, social commentary and a touch of melodrama, set…

Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2)

Théophile Gautier

Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1, is Théophile Gautier’s early French romance, originally issued in two…

Candide

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Candide is an eighteenth‑century satirical novella that launches with a crisp, almost theatrical…

Les crimes de l'amour Précédé d'un avant-propos, suivi des idées sur les romans, de l'auteur des crimes de l'amour à Villeterque, d'une notice bio-bibliographique du marquis de Sade: l'homme et ses écrits et du discours prononcé par le marquis de Sade à la section des piques.

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