France In Literature
Listed below is a highly selective recommendation of works - mostly novels - that are rooted in the various French regions, and which would make good holiday reading. PARIS AND AROUND Steven Barclay (ed) A Place in the World Called Paris Julian Barnes Metroland Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire's Paris , trans Laurence Kitchen Andre Breton Nadja Blaise Cendrars To the End of the World Didier Daeninckx Murder in Memoriam Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental Education Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast Victor Hugo Les Miserables Jack Kerouac Satori in Paris Henry Miller Quiet Days in Clichy, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn Anais Nin Journals 1917-1974 George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London Georges Perec Life: A User's Manual Raymond Queneau Zazie dans le Metro Paul Rambali French Blues Jean Rhys Quartet, Good Morning Midnight Jean-Paul Sartre Roads to Freedom trilogy Georges Simenon Any Maigret thriller Patrick Susskind Perfume Michel Tournier The Golden Droplet Emile Zola Nana, L'Assommoir, La Bete Humaine, La Curee, Le Ventre de Paris CALAIS TO CHAMPAGNE Julien Gracq A Balcony in the Forest, The Opposing Shore Emile Zola Germinal, La Debacle ALSACE, FRANCHE-COMTE AND JURA John Berger Pig Earth Bernard Clavel The Spaniard Colette My Mother's House Pierre Gascar Women and the Sun Stendhal Scarlet and Black NORMANDY AND BRITTANY Honore de Balzac Les Chouans Colette Ripening Seed Sebastian Faulks Birdsong Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Andre Gide Strait is the Gate Pierre Loti Pecheur d'Islande Guy de Maupassant Selected Short Stories Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past Jean Rouard Fields of Glory, Of Illustrious Men Jean-Paul Sartre La Nausee THE LOIRE Alain Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel George Sand The Devil's Pool Emile Zola The Earth BURGUNDY Gabriel Chevallier Clochemerle ATLANTIC COAST Francois Mauriac Therese THE PYRENEES Pierre Loti Ramuntcho LANGUEDOC Hannah Closs High Are the Mountains RHONE VALLEY AND PROVENCE Lawrence Durrell The Avignon Quintet Jean Giono The Horseman on the Roof, The Man Who Planted Trees, Joy of Man's Desiring Marcel Pagnol Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources Emile Zola Fortune of the Rougons COTE D'AZUR Colette Collected Stories Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night Graham Greene Loser Takes All, May We Borrow Your Husband? Katherine Mansfield Selected Short Stories Francoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse
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