Books like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
A deformed bell-ringer in medieval Paris falls in love with a beautiful dancer, and the cathedral that shelters him becomes a battleground between compassion and cruelty.
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Les Misérables
An ex-convict who rebuilt his life is hunted for decades by a relentless police inspector while he raises an orphaned girl and Paris builds towards the barricades of 1832.
A Tale of Two Cities
A French aristocrat who renounced his title and a dissolute English lawyer who looks just like him love the same woman, and the Terror in Paris brings them both to the guillotine's shadow.
Père Goriot
In a shabby Paris boarding house, the ambitious young Eugène de Rastignac watches old Goriot give everything to his two daughters, who use him and leave him to die.
The Phantom of the Opera
A disfigured musical genius living in the cellars of the Paris Opéra falls obsessively in love with a soprano in the chorus, and the managers upstairs keep finding notes from Box Five.
The Gods Will Have Blood
In 1793, Évariste Gamelin, a poor young painter and ardent Jacobin, is appointed a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris.
Sentimental Education
A young man in Paris during the 1848 revolution pursues love, ambition, and political ideals, and watches all three dissolve into mediocrity and regret.
The Werewolf of Paris
Bertrand Caillet, born in rural France on a Christmas Eve, grows up with a terrible hunger, and his guardian tries to hide what he is as he grows into the Paris of the 1871 Commune.
The Axe
In thirteenth-century Norway, Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn, raised together and betrothed as children, give in to each other before the marriage is settled, and blood is shed over it.
Suite Française
A wealthy Parisian family flees the Nazi invasion alongside millions of refugees, and their intertwined story with a German soldier reveals the intimacy of occupation.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
Germinal
Étienne Lantier, an unemployed mechanic, takes work in a coal mine in northern France and leads the miners in a strike against starvation wages, which becomes an elemental battle between labour and capital.
The Betrothed
Two Lombardy peasants are prevented from marrying by a local tyrant and spend the novel finding each other again across plague, war, and the politics of 17th-century northern Italy.