26 Reasons to Read a French Novel.

Discover 26 compelling reasons to read a French novel and explore timeless classics! Enhance your literary journey with iconic books that inspire, challenge, and captivate.

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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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In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.
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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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Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical …
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The Plague

by Albert Camus

“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even …
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Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

This classic Existentialist novel features a new Introduction by renowned poet, translator, and critic Richard Howard.
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The Age of Reason

by Jean-Paul Sartre

The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor …
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Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre

by Arthur Rimbaud

The classic influential poems by Rimbaud, in a bilingual en face edition featuring acclaimed translations by Louise Varése.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

 

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Candide

 

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