French Literature

Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846

Honoré de Balzac

The volume presents the surviving letters that Honoré de Balzac exchanged with Madame Evelina Rzewuska, later…

Abbe Mouret's Transgression

Émile Zola

Émile Zola’s Abbé Mouret’s Transgression is the ninth installment of his Rougon‑Macquart cycle, though it…

Glossaire du patois normand

Louis Du Bois

Ce volume est un glossaire du patois normand, fruit d’une révision minutieuse du travail originel de Louis Du…

Œuvres complètes de François Villon Suivies d'un choix des poésies de ses disciples

François Villon

Ce volume rassemble l’intégralité des œuvres de François Villon, poète français du XVe siècle, accompagné…

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Gustave Flaubert

The work is a biographical‑fictional rendering of the life and spiritual trials of Saint Anthony, filtered…

Les caractères

Jean de La Bruyère

Ce texte est un traité moral qui se veut une réponse aux diverses attentes des lecteurs : certains veulent…

Bergson and His Philosophy

John Alexander Gunn

John Alexander Gunn’s work is a concise, practical guide to Henri Bergson’s philosophy, written in the…

Impressionist painting: Its Genesis and Development

Wynford Dewhurst

The book is a scholarly survey of Impressionism written by Wynford Dewhurst, an English artist‑critic who…

The Fat and the Thin

Émile Zola

The novel is a work of historical fiction set in nineteenth‑century Paris, where the bustling markets become…

Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius

Victor Hugo

The volume is a historical‑fiction portrait of Parisian street life, focusing on the “gamin,” a rag‑clad…

Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Part 1

Cerfberr, Anatole; Christophe, Jules François

The work presented here is a scholarly guide to Honoré de Balzac’s sprawling literary universe, the Comédie…

Rambles on the Riviera

M. F. Mansfield

The Cid

Pierre Corneille

The work is a dramatic retelling of the life of the legendary Castilian hero known as the Cid, composed by…

Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 1 (of 2) or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others

Choderlos de Laclos

Les Liaisons dangereuses is an epistolary novel that presents itself as a collection of private letters,…

De l'Amour Édition revue et corrigée et précédée d'une étude sur les oeuvres de Stendhal par Sainte-Beuve

Stendhal

Ce texte n’est pas un roman mais une « physiologie » de l’amour, c’est‑à‑dire une description méthodique et…

A little tour in France

Henry James

James Henry James’s A little tour in France is a travel‑essay collection that began as a series of informal…

Seraphita

Honoré de Balzac

The work begins as a personal dedication, a letter from Honoré de Balzac to a patroness in which he explains…

Ubu Roi, ou, les Polonais

Alfred Jarry

Ce texte est une pièce de théâtre absurde du XIXᵉ siècle, signée Alfred Jarry, qui se présente dès le premier…

My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833

Alexandre Dumas

The work is a sprawling memoir by Alexandre Dumas that chronicles a single year of his life, 1832‑1833,…

Chicot the Jester

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical swash‑buckling drama set in the turbulent court of Henry III, France, in 1578.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

François Rabelais

The third volume of François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is a sprawling, comic work that blends…

Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence

Charles Alfred Downer

This work is a scholarly dissertation by Charles Alfred Downer, submitted for his Ph.D.

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad

Henri Barbusse

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad is a wartime novel set against the backdrop of World War I, written by Henri…

Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, The Indiscreet Toys

Denis Diderot

The work is an eighteenth‑century French erotic satire, attributed to Denis Diderot, that blends ribald…