French Literature

The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830

Stendhal

The Red and the Black is Stendhal’s self‑conscious bildungsroman, a novel that folds the author’s own…

The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Alphonse Daudet

The Nabob, Vol. 2 of 2 is a French‑set literary work by Alphonse Daudet that unfolds in a rain‑soaked Paris…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Ce roman s’inscrit dans la tradition du roman domestique du XIXᵉ siècle, où les thèmes de l’adultère, du…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "French Literature" to "Frost, William" Volume 11, Slice 2

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Eleventh Edition, Volume XI, Slice II, is a reference work that surveys French…

Dostoevsky

André Gide

The work is a scholarly tribute by André Gide, the leading French novelist of the early twentieth century, to…

Madame Chrysantheme — Volume 3

Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti’s third volume of Madame Chrysantheme continues the lyrical chronicle of a French officer’s…

Father Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

Father Goriot is a French‑origin novel set in the early years of Louis XVIII’s reign, where the cramped,…

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

The work is the concluding segment of Alexandre Dumas’s sprawling D’Artagnan Romances, a historical‑fiction…

L'automne d'une femme

Marcel Prévost

Ce roman de Marcel Prévost s’inscrit dans la fiction française du XIXᵉ siècle, où le décor parisien devient…

The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère

Facecies et motz subtilz, d'aucuns excellens esprits et tresnobles seigneurs

Lodovico Domenichi

Ce recueil se présente comme une anthologie d’anecdotes et de bons mots tirés de conversations et de lettres…

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire

Ce volume est le recueil poétique de Charles Baudelaire, publié pour la première fois en 1857 et…

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary presents itself as a compendium of concise essays on a wide range of…

Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 5, French II

The volume gathers French short stories rendered into English, and it opens with a stark, night‑time vignette…

The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s “The Man Who Laughs” is a sprawling historical romance that places its eccentric protagonist,…

The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré

Jean de La Fontaine

The volume presents Jean de La Fontaine’s celebrated fables in English verse, rendered by Walter Thornbury…

Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite

Molière

Molière’s Tartuffe, The Hypocrite is a French comedy of the seventeenth century, rendered here in an English…

Argot and slang: a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris

Albert Barrère

Albert Barrère’s work is a bilingual reference that gathers, without alteration, the myriad cant words, slang…

The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

The work is the first volume of François‑René Chateaubriand’s sprawling autobiographical chronicle, the…

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault

The volume presents the fairy‑tale collection that made Charles Perrault a lasting favorite of readers,…

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This volume is a biographical sketch of France’s most celebrated literary and scientific figures, and it…

The Middle-Class Gentleman

Molière

The Middle‑Class Gentleman is a French comedy of manners by Molière that opens in the bustling drawing‑room…

The Brass Bell; or, The Chariot of Death

Eugène Sue

The Brass Bell; or, The Chariot of Death is a sweeping historical saga that begins with an elaborate prelude,…

The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose, and other documents in the debate

Charles Frederick Ward

Ce texte est une étude philologique et historique présentée comme une dissertation de doctorat, rédigée par…