The French Literature Collection celebrates the masterworks of one of the world’s richest literary traditions — the novels, plays, and poetry of Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Verne, and their peers. Many editions are presented in the original French, alongside celebrated English translations.
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- A History of French LiteratureEdward Dowden
- A Hundred Fables of La FontaineJean de La Fontaine
- A Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne
- A Royal PrisonerPierre Souvestre
- Against the GrainJ.-K. Huysmans
- Ali PachaAlexandre Dumas
- Amitié amoureuseHermine Lecomte du Noüy
- Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne
- Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleurMaurice Leblanc
- Artists’ WivesAlphonse Daudet
- At the Sign of the Cat and RacketHonoré de Balzac
- Au bord du lacÉmile Souvestre
- Aventures d'un Gentilhomme Breton aux îles PhilippinesPaul de La Gironière
- Baudelaire: His Prose and PoetryCharles Baudelaire
- Beauty and the BeastJeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
- Bel AmiGuy de Maupassant
- Bergson and His PhilosophyJohn Alexander Gunn
- Cameron of LochielPhilippe Aubert de Gaspé
- Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)Alexandre Dumas
- CandideVoltaire
- CarmenProsper Mérimée
- Catherine de’ Medici and Other StoriesHonoré de Balzac
- Classic French Course in EnglishWilliam Cleaver Wilkinson
- Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant
- Confessions of Jean Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau
- Cousin BettyHonoré de Balzac
- Création et rédemption, deuxième partieAlexandre Dumas
- De la terre à la luneJules Verne
- Der Marquis de Sade und seine ZeitIwan Bloch
- Die Frau von dreißig JahrenHonoré de Balzac
- DostoevskyAndré Gide
- Du côté de chez SwannMarcel Proust
- Edmond DantèsEdmund Flagg
- EloisaJean-Jacques Rousseau
- Eugénie GrandetHonoré de Balzac
- Facing the FlagJules Verne
- Famous Women: George SandBertha Thomas
- FantômasPierre Souvestre
- FarewellHonoré de Balzac
- Five Weeks in a BalloonJules Verne
- Four Arthurian RomancesChrétien de Troyes
- Four Short Novels by ZolaÉmile Zola
- From the Earth to the MoonJules Verne
- Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais
- George SandRené Doumic
- GerminalÉmile Zola
- Germinie LacerteuxEdmond de Goncourt
- Godfrey Morgan: A Californian MysteryJules Verne
- His MasterpieceÉmile Zola
- Histoire amoureuse des GaulesRoger de Bussy-Rabutin
- History of the French NovelGeorge Saintsbury
- In Château LandAnne Hollingsworth Wharton
- InstigationsEzra Pound
- Jean-Christophe: Journey’s EndRomain Rolland
- Juliette Drouet’s Love-Letters to Victor HugoLouis Guimbaud
- L’AssommoirÉmile Zola
- La Chanson de RolandUnknown
- La chasse au météoreJules Verne
- La dame aux caméliasAlexandre Dumas
- La Femme AbbéSylvain Maréchal
- La Novela de un Joven PobreOctave Feuillet
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome IAlexandre Dumas
- Le Fantôme de l'OpéraGaston Leroux
- Les Contemporains, 3ème SérieJules Lemaître
- Les crimes de l’amourthe marquis de Sade
- Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
- Les misérables Tome I: FantineVictor Hugo
- Les Mémoires d'un Parapluiecomtesse de Houdetot
- Les Trois MousquetairesAlexandre Dumas
- Letters on EnglandVoltaire
- Letters to an UnknownProsper Mérimée
- Littérature Française (Première Année)Eugène Aubert
- Lost IllusionsHonoré de Balzac
- Louise de la VallièreAlexandre Dumas
- LourdesÉmile Zola
- Là-basJ.-K. Huysmans
- Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
- Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2)Théophile Gautier
- Manon LescautPrévost
- Marcel Proust: An English TributeC. K. Scott Moncrieff
- Marguerite de ValoisAlexandre Dumas
- Mary StuartAlexandre Dumas
- Mathias Sandorf [1]Jules Verne
- Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIVDuchesse d’Orléans
- Memoirs of the Court of Marie AntoinetteMadame Campan
- Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino, 1841–1850Duchesse de Dino
- Memoirs to Illustrate the History of My TimeFrançois Guizot
- Messengers of EvilPierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain
- MicromegasVoltaire
- Mon oncle et mon curéJean de La Brète
- Musta helmiVictorien Sardou
- My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
- Mémoires de Hector BerliozHector Berlioz
- Ninety-ThreeVictor Hugo
- Nobody’s BoyHector Malot
- Nobody's Girl / (En Famille)Hector Malot
- Notre-Dame de ParisVictor Hugo
- Penguin IslandAnatole France
- PhaedraJean Racine
- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral MaximsFrançois de La Rochefoucauld
- Romain RollandStefan Zweig
- Ruhtinatar AurorePierre Benoît
- SalammboGustave Flaubert
- SarrasineHonoré de Balzac
- ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
- Scenes from a Courtesan’s LifeHonoré de Balzac
- Swann's WayMarcel Proust
- Tales of La FontaineJean de La Fontaine
- TalleyrandJoseph McCabe
- TartuffeMolière
- The Black TulipAlexandre Dumas
- The Brass BellEugène Sue
- The Characters of Jean de La BruyèreJean de La Bruyère
- The Companions of JehuAlexandre Dumas
- The Confessions of Arsène LupinMaurice Leblanc
- The conspirators; or, The chevalier d'HarmentalAlexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
- The Devil's PoolGeorge Sand
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-BurglarMaurice Leblanc
- The Fables of La FontaineJean de La Fontaine
- The Flourishing of RomanceGeorge Saintsbury
- The ForerunnersRomain Rolland
- The Girl with the Golden EyesHonoré de Balzac
- The Guermantes WayMarcel Proust
- The Hero of the PeopleAlexandre Dumas
- The Indiscreet ToysDenis Diderot
- The Life and Letters of Ninon de L’EnclosNinon de Lenclos
- The Magic SkinHonoré de Balzac
- The Man in the Iron MaskAlexandre Dumas
- The Man Who LaughsVictor Hugo
- The Memoirs of Victor HugoVictor Hugo
- The Middle-Class GentlemanMolière
- The Mysterious IslandJules Verne
- The Mystery of the Yellow RoomGaston Leroux
- The new terrorGaston Leroux
- The Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux
- The Philosophical DictionaryVoltaire
- The Red and the BlackStendhal
- The Red Lily — CompleteAnatole France
- The regent's daughterAlexandre Dumas
- The Revolt of the AngelsAnatole France
- The Romance of a MummyThéophile Gautier
- The Sand–Flaubert LettersGeorge Sand and Gustave Flaubert
- The Song of RolandAnonymous
- The Tales of Mother GooseCharles Perrault
- The Tales of the HeptameronMarguerite de Navarre
- The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas
- The Unknown MasterpieceHonoré de Balzac
- The Vicomte de BragelonneAlexandre Dumas
- The Wandering Jew — CompleteEugène Sue
- The Woman of MysteryMaurice Leblanc
- Thérèse RaquinÉmile Zola
- Toilers of the SeaVictor Hugo
- Toleration and Other EssaysVoltaire
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne
- Twenty years afterAlexandre Dumas
- Urbain GrandierAlexandre Dumas
- Victor Hugo: His Life and WorkGeorge Barnett Smith
- Vingt mille lieues sous les mersJules Verne
- Voyage au Centre de la TerreJules Verne
- Within a Budding GroveMarcel Proust
- Woman on Her OwnEugène Brieux
- Works of Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant
- ZadigVoltaire
- Émile VerhaerenStefan Zweig
- Émile Zola, Novelist and ReformerErnest Alfred Vizetelly