Title↕ | Author↕ | Year↕ | Genre↕ | Pages (approx)↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | 1862 | Historical Novel | 1,463 |
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | 1831 | Gothic Novel | 940 |
Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1856 | Realist Novel | 329 |
Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert | 1869 | Realist Novel | 480 |
In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913 | Modernist Novel | 4,215 |
The Stranger | Albert Camus | 1942 | Philosophical Novel | 123 |
The Plague | Albert Camus | 1947 | Philosophical Novel | 308 |
The Fall | Albert Camus | 1956 | Philosophical Novel | 147 |
Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | 1938 | Philosophical Novel | 253 |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | Adventure | 1,276 |
The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | Historical Adventure | 700 |
Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | Satire | 144 |
The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1830 | Realist Novel | 576 |
The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | 1839 | Historical Novel | 512 |
Pere Goriot | Honore de Balzac | 1835 | Realist Novel | 304 |
Lost Illusions | Honore de Balzac | 1843 | Realist Novel | 720 |
Germinal | Emile Zola | 1885 | Naturalist Novel | 591 |
Therese Raquin | Emile Zola | 1867 | Naturalist Novel | 256 |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 1943 | Novella | 96 |
Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 1932 | Modernist Novel | 464 |
The Lover | Marguerite Duras | 1984 | Autobiographical Novel | 128 |
Bonjour Tristesse | Francoise Sagan | 1954 | Novel | 160 |
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