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The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas's riveting tale of romantic rivalries, struggles for power, daring escapes, clever disguises, buried treasure, and solemn promises. What more could an adve ...
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Few women, indeed few people, have had a greater hand in shaping their culture than the 18th century aristocrat Germaine de Staël. And few have done so in more spectacular fashion. For twenty years t ...
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Les Miserables, Victor Hugo's 1862 masterpiece, tells a story of personal turmoil in the midst of the traumatic political and social upheaval of nineteenth century France. At its heart is Jean Valjean ...
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Growing up in genteel poverty in seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero. With hopes for glory and adventure in his heart, he sets out to join the elite company of the K ...
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What is human nature? What can a single person know of himself, the world around him, or even of God? Since their publication in 1580, Montaigne's Essays have been a fixture in the field of philosophy ...
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Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune
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A young woman is found brutally attacked and left for dead. The twist? She was in a locked room with no possible exit—how could the criminal have escaped? Originally published in serial form in 1907 ...
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Inspired by Victor Hugo's fascination with the beautiful and ancient Cathedral of Notre Dame, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a moving tale of innocence, love, and tragic misunderstanding. Quasimodo, t ...
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The dramatic conclusion to the saga of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers—and the revelation of the mysterious man in the iron mask
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Out of the heart of turbulent nineteenth-century Paris came Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poetry collection Les Fleurs du Mal. Unapologetically bold, these poems cut to the core of life in modern Europe ...
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre Vingts Jours
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Le Tour du Monde en Quatre Vingt Jours is a rip-roaring tale of adventure on a global scale. On a high-stakes bet from his friends, wealthy Phileas Fogg enlists his trusty butler Passepartout to trave ...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel is a series of five short novels by sixteenth century French writer Francois Rabelais. Here are the comic misadventures of a pair of giants: Pantagruel and his father, Gargant ...
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At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but th ...
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Inspired by stories of legendary French courtesans, Emile Zola’s 1880 novel Nana is the tale of a young woman who finds her calling as a prostitute on the streets of Paris. As the story opens, Nana ...
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The hero of Émile Zola’s 1875 novel Abbe Mouret’s Transgression, Serge Mouret, is a passionate young priest. Just assigned to a rural and uneducated parish, Serge seems unable to reach his new co ...
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One of the first European novels ever written, La Princesse de Clèves is a dazzling work of historical fiction. A young and beautiful girl, Mademoiselle de Chartres, arrives at the French king’s co ...
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A lawyer takes a chance on the stage in Rafael Sabatini’s 1921 novel Scaramouche. The French Revolution is raging and Andre-Louis Moreau finds himself in the middle of a tense situation between upp ...
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Money, jealousy, and romantic intrigue make for plenty of trouble in Honore de Balzac's 1846 novel Cousin Betty. Lonely Betty has been witness to her wealthy relatives' scandalous irresponsibility for ...
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À l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs, Volume 1
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Ma mère, quand il fut question d'avoir pour la première fois M. de Norpois à dîner, ayant exprimé le regret que le Professeur Cottard fût en voyage et qu'elle-même eût entièrement cessé de f ...
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