Basic French Literature

Explore essential French literature with our curated list of basic books. Discover classic novels, poetry, and plays from renowned French authors perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike.

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The Stranger

by Albert Camus

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically …
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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss
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The Little Prince

 

An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking …
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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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Bonjour Tristesse

by Francoise Sagan

'That summer I was seventeen and perfectly happy ... '___
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Germinal

by Émile Zola

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove …
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
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