Best French Literature - theory and examples
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Penguin Island
by Anatole France
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault; 1844-1924. Member of the Académie Française. Awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1921. Penguin Island (1908) has been …
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The Fat and the Thin
by Emile Zola
Zola presents a study of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine …
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The Man Who Laughs
by Victor Hugo
VICTOR HUGO'S long and chequered life (1802-85) was filled with experiences of the most diverse character - literature and politics, the court and the street, …
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The Fortune of the Rougons
by Emile Zola
This is the initial volume of the Rougon-Macquart series. Though it was by no means Zola's first essay in fiction, it was undoubtedly his first …
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A Love Episode
by Émile Zola
Rougon-Macquart, volume 8: There can be no doubt in the mind of the judicial critic that in the pages of "A Love Episode" ("Une page …
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Abbé Mouret's Transgression
by Emile Zola
Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret (see La Conquete de Plassans), was ordained to the priesthood and appointed Cure of Les Artaud, a …
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The Dream
by Émile Zola
Set against the background of a town in Northern France, this novel tells the story of a love idyll between a poor embroideress and the …
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Fruitfulness
by Emile Zola
This volume is the first of a series of four works in which Emile Zola proposed to embody what he considered to be the four …
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Maitre Cornelius
by Honore de Balzac
Balzac's famous medieval love story, in which he turns King Louis XI of France into a detective.
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History of a Crime (the Testimony of an Eye-Witness)
by Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo's documentary historical novel History of a Crime is an impassioned recording of the December 1852 coup d' tat that brought the usurper he …
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Le petit prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Louise de la Vallière
by Alexandre Dumas
"It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with …
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The Mysteries of Marseille
by Émile Zola
Published in 1867, "The Mysteries of Marseille" recounts the love of Philippe Cayol, a poor, untitled republican, and of young Blanche de Cazalis, the niece …
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Ninety-Three
by Victor Hugo
Ninety-Three is a historical novel built upon "a sort of enigma," which was at that date (1793) laid before revolutionary France: "Can a good action …
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Bug-Jargal (French Classics)
by Victor Hugo
"Bug-Jargal" (1826; first published as a short story in 1819) is an early novel by French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885). It describes the friendship between …
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The Gods are Athirst (French Classics)
by Anatole France
Anatole France's novel The Gods are Athirst (Les Dieux ont soif, 1912) tells the story of the painter Evariste Gamelin, who developed into a fanatical …
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Germinie Lacerteux (French Classics)
by Edmond De Goncourt
In his will, Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) left a bequest in honor of his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870) to establish and support a French …
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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
by Anatole France
Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient ecclesiastical literary document that takes …
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Strait is the Gate
by André Gide
"Strait is the Gate", first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite", is a novel about the failure of love in the face …
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Prometheus Illbound
by André Gide
The book "Prometheus Illbound" is one of the most characteristic books of Andre Gide: a work of pure intelectual fantasy, where the subtle brain of …
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Ursula (Ursule Mirouet)
by Honoré de Balzac
"Ursula" (original French title "Ursule Mirouet," 1842) forms one part of "Scenes from Provincial Life," a series of novels-whose other major work is "Eugenie Grandet"-examining …
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Salammbo (Salambo. French Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
The novel Salammbo (published in 1862) interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place before and during the Mercenary Revolt, an uprising of mercenaries …
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Recollections of Oscar Wilde
by André Gide
Three men of literature - Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide, the French Ernest La Jeunesse and the German Franz Blei - present their "Recollections" of …
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Death
by Émile Zola
In the five stories in this volume, Zola describes the circumstances surrounding the deaths of five people from very different social contexts. The work is …
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The Downfall (La Debacle. The Rougon-Macquart)
by Emile Zola
In "The Downfall" Zola tells the story of a terrific land-slide which overwhelmed the French Second Empire: It is a story of war, grim and …
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The Fete at Coqueville (The Coqueville Spree)
by Emile Zola
Zola has rarely displayed the quality of humour, but it is present in the story called "The Fete at Coqueville" ("La Fete a Coqueville"). Coqueville …
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The Flood (French Classics)
by Émile Zola
From the perspective of the family's patriarch, 70-year-old Louis Roubien, Zola provides the reader with emotionally charged and detailed descriptions of a large family's desperate …
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His Excellency
by Émile Zola
His Excellency (French: Son Excellence Eugene Rougon) - From Zola's Rougon-Macquart Series. "Son Excellence Eugene Rougon is the one existing French novel which gives the …
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Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose. French Classics)
by Alphonse Daudet
Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose) - Alphonse Daudet's (1840-1897) first published, though not his first written, novel - appeared in 1868. The first part was …
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The Soil
by Émile Zola
Two of Zola's best known works "The Soil," also known as "The Earth," and "The Rougon-Macquart" are packaged together in this volume. This English translation …
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The Princess of Babylon (French Classics)
by Voltaire
"The Princess of Babylon" is a rarely published philosophical tale that Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) wrote in 1768. --- The story focuses on Amazan, …
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The Joy of Life
by Émile Zola
Pauline Quenu, the daughter of shopkeepers in the Parisian business district Les Halles, is taken in by relatives on the coast of Normandy following the …
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An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields)
by Jules Verne
In the year 1839, Mr. Jeorling, whose geological and mineralogical research have led him to the Kerguelen sub-Antarctic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, sets sail …