📚 French Literature

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with french literature on their catalogue record, first published between 1739 and 1988, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject french literature in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 22,220 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
En attendant Godot	Samuel Beckett	1952	201
L'Homme révolté	Albert Camus	1951	82
La légende des siècles	Victor Hugo	1800	77
Antigone	Jean Anouilh	1782	75
Siècle de Louis XIV	Voltaire	1739	57
Cruel tales	Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam	1893	54
A story-teller's holiday	George Moore	1918	51
Le neveu de Rameau	Denis Diderot	1862	50
Dominique	Eugène Fromentin	1863	46
No Exit (and Three Other Plays)	Jean-Paul Sartre	1945	45
Thérèse Desqueyroux	François Mauriac	1927	43
Tolla	Edmond About	1855	42
Causeries du lundi	Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve	1840	36
La machine infernale	Jean Cocteau	1934	30
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays	Albert Camus	1955	30
On life & letters	Anatole France	1910	28
French poets and novelists	Henry James	1878	22
Le mannequin d'osier	Anatole France	1890	22
L' Empire céleste: roman	Françoise Mallet-Joris	1958	22
Nouvelles poèces noires	Jean Anouilh	1946	20
Histoire du surréalisme	Maurice Nadeau	1945	16
Balzac	Honoré de Balzac	1908	14
Les Reveries Du Promeneur Solitaire	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1946	14
Jeanne	George Sand	1844	13
Les vaisseaux du coeur	Benoîte Groult	1988	12
Le passager du Polarlys	Georges Simenon	1930	10
L' Extase matérielle	J. M. G. Le Clézio	1967	8
Thibault	Roger Martin du Gard	1926	7
Le square	Marguerite Duras	1955	7
Degré zéro de l'écriture	Roland Barthes	1967	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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