French Revolution in Fiction
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A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel
The story of three young provincials of no great heritage who together helped to destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves: …
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Danton's Death ; Leonce and Lena ; Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner
This collection of Büchner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his "black" romantic comedy and …
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The Danton Case ; Thermidor
by Stanisława Przybyszewska
Stanislawa Przybyszewski is recognized as a major twentieth-century playwright on the basis of her trilogy about the French Revolution, of which The Danton Case and …
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City of Darkness, City of Light
by Marge Piercy
Robespierre and Danton. These are the names that have come down to us as the architects of the French Revolution. Yet there is another story …
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The Gods Are Thirsty
by Tanith Lee
Historical novel. Set in France in the summer of 1789 through years of political and social intrigue.
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Scaramouche
by Rafael Sabatini
When his best friend is struck down by an uncaring aristocrat, French lawyer AndrT-Louis Moreau disguises himself as the clown Scaramouche to speak out against …
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The French revolution has entered its stage of bloody terror. Men, women and children fall under the merciless blade of the guillotine. But one foppish …
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any …
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A Far Better Rest
by Susanne Alleyn
In Dickens' novel, A tale of two cities, the character Sydney Carton is transformed "from a youth of great promise to an embittered alcoholic and …
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Anouilh Plays: 1
by Jean Anouilh
A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights. Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, …
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
by Peter Weiss
Grim drama presenting the persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution.
