French Literature

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo present a hybrid of history and personal reflection, offering a “haphazard…

Là-bas

J.-K. Huysmans

The work is an ambitious hybrid of erotic, paranormal, and historical fiction that uses the notorious…

The Story of a Cat

Emile de La Bédollière

The Story of a Cat is a juvenile tale that blends animal affection with a touch of eighteenth‑century French…

Poems of Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine

This volume gathers the French poet Paul Verlaine’s lyrical output, presented here in English translation.

Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. I)

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

This work is a first‑hand memoir by Emmanuel‑Auguste‑Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases, who spent eighteen months…

A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I

Guy de Maupassant

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

Lettres de Madame de Sévigné Précédées d'une notice sur sa vie et du traité sur le style épistolaire de Madame de Sévigné

Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de

Ce volume rassemble la correspondance de Marie de Rabutin‑Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626‑1696), enrichie…

Theresa Raquin

Émile Zola

Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin is a natural‑ist novel that plunges the reader into the grim underbelly of…

Original Short Stories — Volume 04

Guy de Maupassant

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

My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821

Alexandre Dumas

Discours de la méthode

René Descartes

Ce texte est une introduction monumentale à la pensée de René Descartes, placée dans le contexte historique…

Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry

Charles Baudelaire

The volume gathers the poetry and prose of Charles Baudelaire, the French poet whose work defined the…

Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche is a sweeping historical romance that plunges the reader into the ferment of…

Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I

Michel de Montaigne

Ce premier volume des Essais de Michel de Montaigne se présente comme une édition soigneusement annotée,…

Toilers of the sea

Victor Hugo

The work is a French‑origin novel translated into English, set among fishers and sailors in the Channel…

Renaissance literary theory and practice: Classicism in the rhetoric and poetic of Italy, France, and England 1400-1600

Charles Sears Baldwin

Charles Sears Baldwin’s posthumously published manuscript continues the scholarly trajectory begun in his…

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

International Short Stories: French

The volume gathers a series of French short stories translated into English, each offering a vivid glimpse…

Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel

Guy de Maupassant

This novel is a sharply observed portrait of Parisian ambition in the late nineteenth‑century, introducing us…

Wanderings in Spain

Théophile Gautier

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

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

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

Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

The work titled Ten Years Later is the middle portion of Alexandre Dumas’s third D’Artagnan romance, The…

Louise de la Vallière

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Louise de la Vallière is the third installment of Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet’s sprawling D’Artagnan…

Le roman de la rose - Tome I

Guillaume, de Lorris; Jean, de Meun

Le Roman de la Rose est un long poème allégorique du Moyen Âge, né d’une collaboration entre Guillaume de…