French Fiction Books

L'Escalier d'Or

Edmond Jaloux

J'ai toujours été curieux. La curiosité est, depuis mon plus jeune âge, la passion dominante de ma vie. Je l'avoue ici, parce qu'il me faut bien expliquer comment j'ai été mêlé aux événements dont j'a..

Pêcheur d'Islande

Pierre Loti

Leur table massive occupait toute leur demeure; elle en prenait très exactement la forme, et il restait juste de quoi se couler autour pour s'asseoir sur des caissons étroits scellés au murailles de c..

Poil de Carotte

Jules Renard

Poil de Carotte, les fesses collées, les talons plantés, se met à trembler dans les ténèbres. Elles sont si épaisses qu'il se croit aveugle. Parfois une rafale l'enveloppe, comme un drap glacé, pour l..

Paula Monti

Eugène Sue

Seriously, answered M. de Fierval; after having lived for some time in the Rue Saint-Guillaume, he has betaken himself to live on the Quai d'Anjou, at the Diable Vert, in the old and vast Hôtel Lamber..

Antonia

George Sand

While Julien and his mother were engaged in the conversation we have just reported, two other persons were talking in a dainty little salon of the aforesaid hôtel d'Estrelle, a cool, homelike apartmen..

A Tragic Idyl

Paul Bourget

The group of three persons who had been compelled to choose a corner of this mundane caravansary for that romantic conspiracy was composed of a young man and two women. The young man appeared to be th..

The Last Duchess of Belgarde

Molly Elliot Seawell

The duke divided the empire of Trimousette’s soul with her brother, Count Victor of Floramour, who was an edition in small of the Duke of Belgarde, whom he ardently admired and earnestly copied, espec..

The Story of Andre Cornelis

Paul Bourget

I was nine years old. It was in 1864, in the month of June, at the close of a warm afternoon. I was at my studies in my room as usual, having come in from the Lycée Bonaparte, and the outer shutters w..