Description: Concise, provocative, and entertaining, One Hundred Great French Books features many of the famous classics of French literature across ten centuries, but also political and philosophical texts, detective novels and science fiction, and much more. Each entry provides a book's historic and cultural context, author background, and key information about the author, and a summary of its content.
Review Quotes: "Elegant, evocative, and always to the point, this collection unerringly points the reader in the right direction, toward enjoying some of the greatest of the world's literature." --Lynn Hunt, professor, modern European history, UCLA