French Literature

The Magic Skin

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a French‑origin fantasy that folds the ordinary world of a Parisian gambling house into a…

Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

Cyrano de Bergerac

The work is a 17th‑century French satire that blends speculative science‑fiction with the flamboyant…

My Memoirs, Vol. V, 1831 to 1832

Alexandre Dumas

My Memoirs, Vol. V, 1831‑1832 is a sprawling autobiographical chronicle by Alexandre Dumas, the celebrated…

Original Short Stories — Volume 07

Guy de Maupassant

This volume gathers a selection of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories, translated from French into English,…

Proverbes sur les femmes, l'amitié, l'amour et le mariage

P.-M. Quitard

Ce volume, signé Pierre‑Marie Quitard, est un recueil de proverbes français consacrés aux femmes, à l’amitié,…

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac’s Rise and Fall of César Birotteau is a French‑origin novel of the early nineteenth century…

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a collection of short, humorous tales that Balzac published in 1832 under the title Contes…

Dictionnaire érotique moderne

Alfred Delvau

Ce volume est un dictionnaire : il recense, explique et illustre les termes et expressions de la langue…

The Companions of Jehu

Alexandre Dumas

The work is a historical adventure set amid the turbulence of the French Revolution, specifically between…

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris

Émile Zola

Émile Zola’s “The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete” opens with a detailed authorial preface that frames the…

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne

Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island is a science‑fiction adventure that begins with a dramatic, almost…

Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850

Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

The work is a diary‑like memoir of Dorothée Dino, duchesse de Dino (later duchesse de…

Nobody's boy (Sans famille)

Hector Malot

The novel is a French adventure of the mid‑nineteenth century, narrated through the eyes of a foundling who…

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

Sand, George; Flaubert, Gustave

This volume presents the translated correspondence between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, a twelve‑year…

Marcel Proust, an English Tribute

The work is an essay‑like tribute that gathers the reflections of English critics, translators, and friends…

Napoleon the Little

Victor Hugo

The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete

Alfred de Musset

The work is a French‑origin historical‑fiction piece translated into English, centered on the restless…

French Lyrics

This volume presents a concise survey of French lyric poetry, beginning with a reflective preface that urges…

Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

Ce texte débute comme un tableau vivant d’un théâtre du XVIIᵉ siècle, où chaque recoin de la scène est décrit…

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

Jules Verne

Ce roman s’inscrit dans le genre de l’aventure et du voyage, comme l’indiquent les sujets « Adventure stories…

My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830

Alexandre Dumas

The third volume of Alexandre Dumas’s memoirs picks up in 1826, chronicling the author’s early career in…

The Well of Saint Clare

Anatole France

Anatole France’s The Well of Saint Clare is a collection of short stories rendered from French into English,…

Poor Relations

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a sprawling French novel set in nineteenth‑century Paris, where the social fabric of the city is…

A Simple Soul

Gustave Flaubert

The work is a sprawling domestic novel set in early‑nineteenth‑century Normandy, introduced through a…