Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Project Gutenberg: The Human Comedy (Honore De Balzac)
The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.
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Michael Lastinger's Emile Zola Page
A comprehensive link site, with literally everything one could want about Zola.
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Club De Poesie: Quelques Mots Sur Alfred De Musset
This short but informative hypertextual French biography was prepared by Dominique Nourry for the Club des Poetes. It includes a bibliography and links to Alfred de Musset's poems.
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Poesie.webnet: Les Grands Classiques
D'Alphonse Allais a Charles Baudelaire, de Victor Hugo a Pierre Corneille, de Marie Stuart a Gerard de Nerval, tous les plus grands poetes representes par leurs meilleures oeuvres. A search engine for French poetry.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Anatole France
A fairly thorough biography in English with an attached bibliography.
University of Pennsylvania
Project Gutenberg: Etext of Balzac by Frederick Lawton
Read the full text of this biography of the 19th century author of The Human Comedy.
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Anatole France (1844 1924)
This site offers full French editions of the following of France's works: "Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet et plusieurs autres recits profitables" "L'Etui de nacre" "Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Stephane Mallarme (1842 1898)
This site offers a full French edition of Mallarme's "Poesies"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Alphonse Daudet (1840 1897)
This site offer a full French edition of Daudet's "Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Guy De Maupassant (1850 1893)
This site offers full French editions of the following of Maupassant's works: Contes de la becasse (1883) Bel Ami (1885) Boule de suif (1880) Le Horla (1887) Les Contes du jour et de la nuit (1885) - Le vieux La maison Tellier - Une...
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Benjamin Constant (1767 1830)
This site contains a full French edition of Constant's "Adolphe."
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Historiographie Du Xi Xe Siecle. Hippolyte Taine
An anthology of historical, philosophical, artistic analysis from Taine's works, all in French.
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A La lettre.com: Arthur Rimbaud
This French-language biography profiles the life and work of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891).
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Emile Zola (1840 1902)
This site offers full French editions of the following of Zola's works: L'Argent La Curee Germinal J'accuse
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Gustave Flaubert (1821 1880)
This site offers full French editions of the following of Flaubert's works: Bouvard et Pecuchet Madame Bovary L'Education Sentimentale Salammbo Un coeur simple (extrait de "Trois contes", 1877)
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Prosper Merimee (1803 1870)
This site offers a full French edition of Merimee's "Colomba."
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Stendhal (1783 1842)
This site offers full French editions of the following of Stendhal's works: Chroniques italiennes Armance Memoires d'un touriste (Voyage en Bretagne et en Normandie) (1838) La Chartreuse de Parme Le Rouge et le Noir (1830)
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Honore De Balzac (1799 1850)
This site contains full French editions of the following of Balzac's works: Le colonel Chabert (1832) Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu L'elixir de longue vie (1830) La fille aux yeux d'or (1834-35).
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: George Sand (1804 1876)
This site contains a full French edition of George Sand's "Francois le Champi."
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Victor Hugo (1802 1885)
The list of full French text editions of Hugo's works contained in this site is too large to reproduce here.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Cousin Bette: Reading Guide
Critical background information, as well as a biographical sketch and discussion questions are offered here by the publisher.
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Emile Zola Nulla Dies Sine Linea
A wonderful Zola site in French that includes biographical information, summaries of his works, a bibliography, and a photo gallery with caricatures.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Devil's Pool Vol. Xiii, Part 2
This reprint of the Harvard Classics edition includes biographical information, criticism and interpretation by Benjamin Wells and Matthew Arnold, as well as the text of "The Devil's Pool."