French Literature — stories and articles

Everything on WonderBooks tagged French Literature: 3 articles and 13 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.

Articles

• Is Donkey Skin in English? Understanding a Classic French Tale
• Unrelated Minds: Renaud Camus and Albert Camus
• The French Tale That Shaped Beauty and the Beast

Illustrated stories

• Around the Moon
  Three travelers shot from a cannon, a meteor that quietly bends their course, and the long, cold loop around a world they never quite land on
• Candide
  A young man taught that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the long hard road across three continents that answers him
• Carmen
  A classic tale of passion, jealousy, and fate in 19th-century Spain
• Germinal
  A mining town, a hungry strike, and the slow stubborn growth of something that will not stay buried
• Les Misérables
  A stolen loaf, a forgiving Bishop, and the many lives one man spends trying to make up for it
• Madame Bovary
  A doctor's wife in a small Norman town, and the life she wanted instead of the one she had
• Michael Strogoff
  The Tsar's Courier: A perilous journey across Siberia to save a nation
• Père Goriot
  A father who gave his daughters everything he had, and the young man from the provinces who watched it happen
• The Black Tulip
  A scientist's obsession, a jailer's daughter, and the quest for a perfect flower in old Holland
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  A bellringer, a dancer, and the cathedral that watched over both of them
• The Man in the Iron Mask
  The Secret Twin, the King's Deception, and the Four Loyal Swords
• The Phantom of the Opera
  An angel, a genius, a beautiful voice, and a terrible face in the Paris Opéra
• The Red and the Black
  A carpenter's son climbs on ambition and love, in a France that never forgets a man's rank