1984

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy get off to the worst possible start in Austen's comedy of manners, here in French. Familiar enough that you can follow it even when the vocabulary gets ahead of you.

Jane Austen

A destitute student murders a pawnbroker and then has to live inside his own head. Dostoevsky's psychological novel in its French edition.

Fiodor Dostoïevski

The March sisters grow up during the American Civil War while their father is away. Warm, episodic and gentle on the reader, which makes it good French practice.

Louisa May Alcott

Both parts of Cervantes' novel about the country gentleman who reads too many chivalric romances and rides out to fix the world. Over sixteen hundred pages in French.

Miguel de Cervantes

An orphan becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall and finds out what her employer keeps upstairs. The classic Lesbazeilles Souvestre translation, complete and unabridged.

Charlotte Brontë