French novels adapted into plays

novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

novel by Jules Verne

novel by Victor Hugo

1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne

' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire

1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne

French novel by Albert Camus

1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac

French novel by Stendhal (1830)

1910 novel by Gaston Leroux

1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils

novel by Octave Mirbeau

novel by Jules Verne

1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Bel-Ami (, "Dear Friend") is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903.

Salammbô is an 1862 historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 BCE). Flaubert's principal source was Book I of the Histories, written by the Greek historian Polybius. The novel was enormously popular when first published and jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.

novel by Hector Malot

novel by Émile Zola

novel by Victor Hugo

1885 novel by Jules Verne

1796 novel by Denis Diderot

2015 novel by Michel Houellebecq

novel by Alexandre Dumas

1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1795 novel by Marquis de Sade

novel by Guy de Maupassant

Atomised, also known as The Elementary Particles (), is a novel by the French author Michel Houellebecq, published in France in 1998. It tells the story of two half-brothers, Michel and Bruno, and their mental struggles against their situations in modern society. It was translated into English by Frank Wynne as Atomised in the UK and as The Elementary Particles in the US. It won the International Dublin Literary Award for writer and translator.

novella by Colette

novel by Gaston Leroux

novel of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

1902 novel by André Gide

1851 novel by Henri Murger

2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq

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Séraphîta () is a French novel by Honoré de Balzac with themes of androgyny. It was published in the Revue de Paris in 1834. In contrast with the realism of most of the author's best known works, the story delves into the fantastic and the supernatural to illustrate philosophical themes.

1886 novel by Pierre Loti

novel by Honoré de Balzac

2001 novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

novel by Eugène Sue

2001 novel by Shan Sa

1954 novel by Boileau-Narcejac

novel by Georges Ohnet

novel by the Countess of Ségur

novella by Alexandre Dumas

1952 novel by Boileau-Narcejac