Essential French Drama and Literature

Explore the best of French drama and literature with our curated list of essential books and plays. Discover classic and contemporary masterpieces that define France's rich literary heritage.

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

by Francois Rabelais

A masterly new translation of Rabelais’s robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais …
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The three musketeers

 

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The Man in the Iron Mask

 

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss
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Old Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

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A Harlot High and Low

by Honore de Balzac

Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which introduces the satanic genius …
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The Red and the Black

by Stendhal

Charts the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above …
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Les misérables

 

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Germinal

by Emile Zola

The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s …
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Madame Bovary

 

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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 Little Prince

 

A man has an accident in the Sahara Desert, and encounters the Little Prince.
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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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The Bald Soprano, and Other Plays

by Eugène Ionesco

Four original plays by French author Eugène Ionesco.
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Rhinoceros, and Other Plays

by Eugène Ionesco

A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.
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No Exit and Three Other Plays

by Jean-Paul Sartre

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known …
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