French Literature

The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a scholarly introduction and appendix to Honoré de Balzac’s monumental series La Comédie Humaine.

Contes Français

Ce volume rassemble une série de nouvelles françaises, chacune présentée comme un exercice de lecture et de…

Salammbo

Gustave Flaubert

The novel opens with a sprawling banquet set in a Carthaginian garden, where a motley crowd of mercenaries,…

Les Misérables, v. 1/5: Fantine

Victor Hugo

This volume opens the first part of Victor Hugo’s sweeping historical fiction, “Fantine,” by situating the…

His Masterpiece

Émile Zola

His Masterpiece is an autobiographical‑fictional portrait of the Parisian art world in the waning years of…

The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker

Charles Baudelaire

The volume gathers Charles Baudelaire’s poems and prose poems, presented in English translation and prefaced…

Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1

Gustave Flaubert

The novel opens aboard a bustling steamboat gliding down the Seine, where a crowd of passengers, artisans,…

Fables de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

Ce volume est une collection de fables que Jean de La Fontaine présente comme des adaptations des récits…

Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean

Victor Hugo

This volume is a sweeping work of historical fiction set amid the tumult of mid‑nineteenth‑century Paris,…

George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings

René Doumic

René Doumic’s work is a biographical essay rather than a scholarly monograph, presenting a series of themed…

Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean

Victor Hugo

Ce volume poursuit l’épopée historique de Victor Hugo, ancrée dans le tumulte de la Révolution de 1848.

Short-story masterpieces, Vol. 1: French

The volume gathers ten French short‑stories, presented here with an introductory essay that treats the form…

Amours d'Extrême-Orient Illustrations d'après nature par Amédée Vignola

Olivier Diraison-Seylor

Ce volume, signé Olivier Diraison‑Seylor, se présente comme une réflexion esthétique et hygiénique sur la…

Candide, ou l'optimisme

Voltaire

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, est une satire philosophique qui se lance dès le premier chapitre dans le cadre…

The Thirteen

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a French nineteenth‑century novel that belongs to Honoré de Balzac’s sprawling “Comédie Humaine,”…

L'Assommoir

Émile Zola

The novel opens in a cramped, dilapidated hotel on the Boulevard de la Chapelle, where Gervaise awakens at…

Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900

Mary King Waddington

The book is a collection of personal letters written by Mary King Waddington, wife of the French…

Popular Tales

Charles Perrault

This volume presents Charles Perrault’s French fairy‑tale collection, first issued in Paris in 1697.

Women in the Life of Balzac

Juanita Helm Floyd

Juanita Helm Floyd’s work is a scholarly biography that concentrates on the women who shaped Honoré de…

Ninety-Three

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s Ninety‑Three opens amid the bleak spring of 1793, when a Parisian battalion, thinned to a few…

Eugenie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac

The novel opens with a richly detailed portrait of a narrow, weather‑worn street in Saumur, where the…

Il Conte di Monte-Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Il Conte di Monte‑Cristò è un romanzo storico che intreccia avventura, vendetta e intrighi marittimi nella…

Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts

Edmond Rostand

The work is Edmond Rostand’s five‑act heroic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac, a verse drama that burst onto the…

Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Romances offers a sweeping collection of the French author’s short fictional works, rendered into…