French Literature

French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc. is referred to as Francophone literature. As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country. France itself ranks first in the list of Nobel Prizes in ...more

La muy catastrófica visita al zoo
Mona's Eyes
My Husband
Ce que je sais de toi
Como bestias
Small Boat
Trois
Tata
The Young Man
Le Mage du Kremlin
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Triste tigre
Veiller sur elle
L'Effondrement
Changer : méthode
The Stranger
The Little Prince
Madame Bovary
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
Candide
The Plague
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Three Musketeers
The Red and the Black
Nausea
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Père Goriot
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Phantom of the Opera
Wenken voor jonge letterkundigen by Charles BaudelaireBodembestemming by Jean EchenozHet vervloekte ras by Marcel ProustOok u, meneer Voltaire - zes brieven by Marie Anne de Vichy-ChamrondEen jachtpartij by Alain Fleischer
Perlouses
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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEast of Eden by John SteinbeckLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellIt by Stephen  King
Big Fat Reads Worth The Effort 2.0
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Papillon by Henri CharrièreMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Red Collar by Jean-Christophe RufinLe Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre DumasBonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Authors Born in France
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Albert Camus
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Albert Camus, The Stranger

Stendhal
Si Julián hubiera empleado en examinar lo que pasaba en el salón el tiempo que ponía en exagerar la belleza de Matilde o en apasionarse pensando en la altivez natural de su familia, a la que ella olvidaba por él, hubiera comprendido en qué consistía su poder sobre todo el que la rodeaba. - Capítulo XI
Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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