French Literature

Beauty and the Beast

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

The work is a French‑origin fairy tale retold by Jeanne‑Marie Leprince de Beaumont, opening with the familiar…

The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

Charles Perrault

This volume presents the first collected edition of Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose tales, first issued in…

Micromegas

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Micromegas is a short, philosophical tale that blends science‑fiction travel with sharp satire.

The black tulip

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a sprawling historical novel that intertwines the political turbulence of the Dutch Republic with…

Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s little travelogue recounts a single, self‑conscious expedition across the Cévennes…

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Honoré de Balzac

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life is a French social novel by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1838.

Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s fourth‑fifth volume, subtitled “The Idyll and the Epic,” is a sweeping historical work that…

Dumas' Paris

M. F. Mansfield

The Lesser Bourgeoisie

Honoré de Balzac

The Lesser Bourgeoisie is Honoré de Balzac’s early attempt to sketch the social fabric of post‑revolutionary…

Romain Rolland: The Man and His Work

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig’s work is a scholarly tribute that intertwines biography and moral reflection, presenting Romain…

Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

Ten Years Later continues Alexandre Dumas’s sprawling D’Artagnan Romances, picking up the saga in 1660‑1661…

Cousin Betty

Honoré de Balzac

Cousin Betty is a didactic French novella translated into English, set in the bustling social world of 1840s…

Poésies choisies de André Chénier

André Chénier

Ce volume rassemble les poèmes d’André Chénier, poète français du XVIIIᵉ siècle, dont la vie et l’œuvre sont…

A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola;

J. G Patterson

The work is a scholarly reference that catalogues every character who appears in Émile Zola’s twenty‑novel…

Letters to an Unknown

Prosper Mérimée

The work is a collection of letters between Prosper Mérimée and his long‑time correspondent Jeanne Françoise…

Zadig; Or, The Book of Fate

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Zadig; Or, the Book of Fate is an 18th‑century French political fiction that treats manners and…

Sarrasine

Honoré de Balzac

The work is an autobiographical‑style French novel rendered in English translation, opening with a vivid,…

Germinal

Émile Zola

Émile Zola’s Germinal is a natural‑istic novel that plunges the reader into the world of coal‑miners in…

The Princess of Cleves

Madame de La Fayette

The Princess of Cleves is a historical‑psychological romance set amid the glittering courts of 16th‑century…

Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete

Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

The work is a sprawling memoir and correspondence collection that brings together the letters, anecdotes, and…

Queens of the French Stage

H. Noel Williams

The work is a scholarly biography of the French actresses of the seventeenth‑century stage, focusing on the…

French Classics

William Cleaver Wilkinson

Wilkinson’s work is a scholarly survey of French literature, positioned as the fifth volume in a series that…

Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

This work is a biographical study of Émile Zola, written by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.

Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet

Drouet, Juliette; Guimbaud, Louis

This volume presents a curated selection of Juliette Drouet’s intimate missives to Victor Hugo, accompanied…