The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, p...
Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, commencé à Saché en 1834, dont la publication commence dans la Revue de Paris et qui paraît en 1842 en...
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military...
The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others i...
Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither name...
Paris Talks is a book transcribed from talks given by `Abdu'l-Bahá, the son and successor of Bahá’u’lláh, the Founder of the Bahá’í Faith, while in Pa...
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War. A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to collaborate on...
In "The Count's Millions and Baron Trigault's Vengeance" by Émile Gaboriau, a gripping tale of revenge and hidden wealth unfolds in the heart of 19th...
Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bohemian life in Paris...
Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, écrit en 1834, dont la publication débute dans la Revue de Paris et qui paraît en 1835 en librairie. I...
Set in 17th-century Paris, Fräulein von Scuderi follows the story of a murder investigation that unfolds around the enigmatic goldsmith René Cardillac...
Castles in the Air is a short novel or a collection of interconnected stories told in the form of an autobiography by a charming yet unscrupulous Fren...
Fantômas, the first in a series of 32 novels, introduces a ruthless and enigmatic criminal who terrorizes Paris. Inspector Juve, obsessed with capturi...
Les Précieuses ridicules is a one-act play by Molière that premiered in 1659. It is a comedy that satirizes the affectations and pretensions of précie...
L'Ingénu, or Sincere Huron, is a satirical novella by Voltaire that explores the clash between innocence and societal corruption. It follows the journ...
Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography is a captivating and often shocking account of his extraordinary life during the Italian Renaissance. A gifted scul...
This volume of Victor Hugo's epic novel, *Les Misérables*, focuses on Jean Valjean's journey as an ex-convict seeking a new life free from his past....
The Harbor tells the story of Billy, a young man growing up on the bustling Brooklyn waterfront. He dreams of escaping the world of shipping, his fat...
Joyce, an American girl, is sent to boarding school in France. She has many adventures, including exploring Paris, making new friends, and learning ab...
In the tumultuous times of the Hundred Years' War, young Guy Aylmer finds himself caught in the midst of a bloody conflict that threatens his family a...
Onesimus Coche, a journalist in Paris, is convinced that the police are inefficient. After a dinner with his friend Ledoux, he finds himself thrust in...
Ruth Erskine, now in her fifties, navigates the complexities of motherhood as her son, grown from the young boy featured in a previous book, brings ho...
Dans le Paris du XIXe siècle, une ambiance sombre et mystérieuse règne. Trois jeunes aristocrates allemands disparaissent sans laisser de trace, jetan...
