Category
page 1French psychological novels
The Red and the Black
French novel by Stendhal (1830)

Thérèse Raquin
novel by Émile Zola
La Princesse de Clèves
1678 novel usually attributed to Madame de La Fayette

La Bête humaine
novel by Émile Zola

Second Thoughts
1957 novel by Michel Butor

Adolphe
Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit relationship serves to isolate them from their friends and from society at large. The book eschews all conventional descriptions of exteriors for the sake of detailed accounts of feelings and states of mind.

Pierre et Jean
novella by Guy de Maupassant

Madeleine Férat
novel by Émile Zola

The Living and the Dead
1954 novel by Boileau-Narcejac

Les Mystères de Marseille
novel by Émile Zola

She Who Was No More
1952 novel by Boileau-Narcejac