A French 19th Century Literature Sampler
Explore masterpieces of French 19th-century literature with this curated sampler, featuring timeless classics like Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dive into essential fiction from the era's greatest authors.
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Collected Poems (Rimbaud, Arthur): Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of Each Poem
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From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verneās prophetic novel of manās race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicaneās adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a āmannedā flight, one manās dream turns into an international space race. A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, From the Earth to the Moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verneās timeless masterpieces 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Adolphe
by Benjamin Constant
Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. Adolphe is enraptured and gradually wears down her resistance to his declarations of love. But as they embark on an intense and tortured affair, Ellenore gives way to a flood of emotion that only serves to repel her younger lover - yet he cannot bring himself to leave her and his procrastination can only bring tragedy. Partly inspired by Constant's own stormy affair with Madame de Staƫl, Adolphe (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.