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Plongez dans l'univers romanesque d'Emma Bovary ! Madame Bovary est la première oeuvre publiée par Gustave Flaubert. Parue en 1857, elle est son roman le plus célèbre, et le plus adapté au théâtre comme au cinéma. Charles Bovary est un bon garçon, niais, terne, mais gentil. Il est officier de santé, pas docteur en médecine, mais c'est suffisant. Emma Rouault est la fille d'un riche fermier, élevée dans un couvent. Elle y a reçu une...

In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) produced a huge collection of novels, novellas and short stories, earning him recognition as a great master of the novel, as well as one of the creators of literary realism. He collected and arranged his works under the name "La Comédie humaine", which he then divided into eight major topics. "Eugénie Grandet" was placed in the section titled, "Scenes from Provincial Life". The story takes place in the French town of...

One of the most famous of Honore de Balzac's novels, "Lost Illusions" paints a faithful picture of the spectacular but superficial world of mid-19th century French society, and the indissoluble relationship between the bourgeois and aristocratic classes. Originally published serially from 1837 to 1843, the story features the main characters Lucien Chardon, a vain and naïve poet and journalist, and his friend and brother-in-law David Sechard, an innovative,...

"It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming Proust as a major literary figure and dramatically increasing his fame. Here the narrator whose childhood was reflected in Swann's Way moves further through childhood and into adolescence, as the author brilliantly examines themes of love and youth, in settings in Paris and by the sea in Normandy. The reader again encounters Swann, now married to his former mistress and largely fallen...

The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.

Une édition de référence de Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Jean, aussi blond que son frère était noir, aussi calme que son frère était emporté, aussi doux que son frère était rancunier, avait fait tranquillement son droit et venait d'obtenir son diplme de licencié en même temps que Pierre obtenait celui de docteur. [...] Mais une vague jalousie, une de ces jalousies...

In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.

Subtitled A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century, Scarlet and Black is a tale of murder, betrayal and seduction, but also a brilliant and subtle psychological study which Andre Gide ranked among the world's ten greatest novels.

An atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England.