France -- Fiction books

Monte-Cristo's Daughter

Edmund Flagg

Monte‑Cristo’s Daughter is a sequel that continues the adventure of Edmond Dantès after the events of Dumas’s…

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France

The Red Lily is a multi‑part French novel by Anatole France, presented here in English translation.

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that foregrounds the lives of a provincial French middle‑class family, with…

Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that immerses the reader in the provincial world of a French middle‑class…

In Kings' Byways

Stanley John Weyman

In Kings’ Byways is a historical short‑story collection set in post‑Richelieu France, and the opening passage…

Artists' Wives

Alphonse Daudet

The work is a French short‑story collection by Alphonse Daudet, translated into English, that turns its focus…

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…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

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

Barbarians

Robert W. Chambers

Barbarians is a World War I novel that opens amid the cramped decks of a mule transport bound for the Western…

Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle

Stendhal

Ce roman, classé parmi les Bildungsromans, se déploie d’abord comme une peinture détaillée d’une petite ville…

Les liaisons dangereuses Lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres

Choderlos de Laclos

Ce roman épistolaire, signé Choderlos de Laclos, se présente comme une collection de lettres circulant dans…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne

The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete

Alfred de Musset

The Unknown Masterpiece 1845

Honoré de Balzac

Abbe Mouret's Transgression

Émile Zola

East Lynne

Mrs. Henry Wood

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

Choderlos de Laclos

Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 1 (of 8): Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

The Lily of the Valley

Honoré de Balzac

Dangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4 A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society.

Choderlos de Laclos

Colonel Chabert

Honoré de Balzac

The Reef

Edith Wharton

Le Grand Meaulnes

Alain-Fournier

Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné

Victor Hugo