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Le Neveu de Rameau |
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One of the Enlightenment's most prominent figures, Diderot produced this clever work as a response to many of the philosophical debates of his day, including free will, evil and the arts. A dialogue ...
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Le Cid |
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Considered by many to be the beginning of Classical French drama, Le Cid is a play of epic proportions about love, honor and duty. Written in the first half of the seventeenth century, the play has be...
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Eugénie Grandet |
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Part of one of the greatest literary series ever written, Eugénie Grandet tells the story of a young lady trapped in the miserly world constructed by her money-obsessed father. An age-old tale applic...
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Madame Bovary |
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Considered by many to be the greatest French novel, Madame Bovary tells the tale of a woman so tired of her tedious existence in rural France that she turns to every sort of distraction only to find h...
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Le Malade Imaginaire |
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A timeless tale with great wit, Le Malade Imaginaire is one of France's most-loved comedies, by one of its most-loved playwrights. Telling the laughable story of a hypochondriac, Monsieur Argan, the ...
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Le Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur |
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Synonymous with impostors or phonies, the liar Tartuffe came to represent a type in itself, a man who couldn't speak the truth if he wanted to. Here you can read the great work in the original and le...
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Candide, ou l'Optimisme |
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The Enlightenment's best and brightest, Voltaire produced Candide at a point in his life, and world history, when serious doubts had been cast on man's ability to understand everything. A fun, fascin...
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Une Saison en Enfer |
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Child genius, Arthur Rimbaud produced some of the most brilliant poetry ever written in French. The French James Dean of his day, Rimbaud wanted to create something new and vibrant that would break w...
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Notre Dame de Paris |
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Digitized and made available by the growing collection of Bibliotheca Augustana, here you will find the complete text of Victor Hugo's nineteenth century classic Notre Dame de Paris. While certainly ...
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