Books

The Princesse de Clèves portrays the quiet intensity of forbidden love and moral restraint within the glittering court of 16th-century France, revealing how inner conflicts can be more dramatic than outward events.

There’s never been a book about food like Let’s Eat France!

The Red and the Black by Stendhal is a cornerstone of literary realism that exposes the ambitions, hypocrisies, and moral conflicts of 19th-century French society.

Verne's classic novel of global voyaging

The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War.

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008.

Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide’s Lafcadio’s Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime.

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951.

Father Goriot is an enthralling exploration of the human condition and a timeless tale of the relentless pursuit of happiness at any cost.

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.

In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters.

Sparkling with amusing banter, these stories—the best of the Lupin series—are outrageous, melodramatic, and literate.

This 1914 novel by Nobel laureate Anatole France offers a brilliant satire of war, government, and religion.

The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building

Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century.

Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain- Fournier's narrator compellingly carries the reader through this indelible portrait of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence

Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life - depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity

The French poetry in this book was important in the symbolist and modernist movements, dealing with themes related to decadence and eroticism

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was falling into disrepair.