HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850)

The Black Sheep The Human Comedy -Louis Lambert- -Eugénie Grandet- -La Recherche de l’absolu- -Le Père Goriot- -Les Illusions perdues- -César Birotteau- -La Cousine Bette- -Le Cousin Pons-

ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1802-1870)

The Black Tulip The Corsican Brothers The Count of Monte Cristo The Man in the Iron Mask The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After

VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885)

The Last Day of a Condemned Man The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Les Miserables The Toilers of the Sea The Man Who Laughs

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR (1803 in Belgium-1870 in the U.S.)

Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour

Memoirs of Hadrian

PROSPER MERIMEE (1803-1887)

Carmen

GEORGE SAND (1804-1876)

Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin

Indiana

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880)

Madame Bovary Salammbô Sentimental Education

ALEXANDRE DUMAS, fils (1824-1895)

La Dame aux Camelias

JULES VERNE (1828-1905)

Journey to the Center of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in Eighty Days

EMILE ZOLA (1840-1902)

Germinal

ANATOLE FRANCE (1844-1924)

Penguin Island

GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-1893)

A Life: The Humble Truth

GASTON LEROUX (1868-1927)

Gothic

The Phantom of the Opera

ANDRE GIDE (1869-1951)

The Counterfeiters The Immoralist

MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922)

Pleasures and Regrets Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I -Swann's Way- -Within a Budding Grove- Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II -The Guermantes Way- -Cities of the Plain-

LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE (1894-1961)

Louis-Ferdinand Destouches

Journey to the End of the Night

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (1905-1980)

Nausea

ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960)

The Plague The Stranger