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Reached an advanced level and looking to perfect your French? Our advanced collection (vocabulary: CEFR B2+) offers French literary masterpieces with rich vocabulary and complex grammatical structures - the ultimate reading practice to master French.
At this level, you'll discover major authors like Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, and Émile Zola. These works represent the pinnacle of French literature, with their stylistic richness and thematic depth.
What makes a book advanced level
- ●Literary and specialized vocabulary (5000+ words)
- ●Complex sentences with multiple levels of subordination
- ●Literary tenses (passé simple, imperfect subjunctive)
- ●Elaborate literary style with figures of speech
Our collection currently includes 76 advanced-level books, representing the greatest works of classic French literature.
Every book can be read directly in our reader with instant translation. Our grammar analysis tool helps you deconstruct the most elaborate constructions of classic French prose.
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Flaubert's masterpiece of provincial life and romantic dreams, in famously precise prose: for readers ready for sophisticated French.
À combien l'amour revient aux vieillards
How Much Love Costs the Old
Honoré de Balzac
À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs - Deuxième partie
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Second Part
Marcel Proust
À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs - Troisième partie
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Third Part
Marcel Proust
Alcools
Guillaume Apollinaire
Casse-Noisette
The Nutcracker
Alexandre Dumas
Chantecler
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Du côté de chez Swann
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
Esther heureuse
Esther Happy
Honoré de Balzac
Fables, Livre II
Fables, Book II
Jean de La Fontaine
Fusées
Flares
Charles Baudelaire
Gambara
Honoré de Balzac
Gaudissart II
Honoré de Balzac
Hygiène
Hygiene
Charles Baudelaire
Jean et Jeannette
Jean and Jeannette
Gauthier
Jésus-Christ en Flandre
Jesus Christ in Flanders
Honoré de Balzac
Jeunesse de Pierrot
Youth of Pierrot
Alexandre Dumas
L'Élixir de longue vie
The Elixir of Long Life
Honoré de Balzac
L'Enfant maudit
The Cursed Child
Honoré de Balzac
L'Interdiction
The Prohibition
Honoré de Balzac
La Bourse
The Stock Exchange
Honoré de Balzac
La Curée
The Kill
Émile Zola
La Femme abandonnée
The Abandoned Woman
Honoré de Balzac
La Fille aux yeux d'or
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Honoré de Balzac
La Fin du monde
The End of the World
Camille Flammarion
La Guerre des boutons
The War of the Buttons
Louis Pergaud
La Maison du chat-qui-pelote
The House of the Cat that Furballs
Honoré de Balzac
La Marquise
The Marquise
George Sand
La Messe de l'athée
The Mass of the Atheist
Honoré de Balzac
La Paix du ménage
The Peace of the Household
Honoré de Balzac
La Peau de chagrin
The Wild Ass's Skin
Honoré de Balzac
La Peau de chagrin
The Wild Ass's Skin
Honoré de Balzac
La Vieille Fille
The Old Maid
Honoré de Balzac
Le Bal de Sceaux
The Ball at Sceaux
Honoré de Balzac
Le Côté de Guermantes - Première Partie
The Guermantes Way - First Part
Marcel Proust
Le Curé de Tours
The Curé of Tours
Honoré de Balzac
Le Feu
The Fire
Henri Barbusse
Le Lys dans la vallée
The Lily of the Valley
Honoré de Balzac
Le Rêve
The Dream
Émile Zola
Le Rhin
The Rhine
Victor Hugo
Le Roman de la momie
The Novel of the Mummy
Théophile Gautier
Le Ventre de Paris
The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
Les Anekphantes
The Anekphantes
Farney
Les Chouans
The Chouans
Honoré de Balzac
Les Contemplations
The Contemplations
Victor Hugo
Les Deux Poètes
The Two Poets
Honoré de Balzac
Les Fleurs du mal
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire
Les Hommes frénétiques
The Frenzied Men
Henri Perochon
Les Paysans
The Peasants
Honoré de Balzac
Les Proscrits
The Outlaws
Honoré de Balzac
Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Roues innocents
The Innocent Wheels
Théophile Gautier
Lettres de mon moulin
Letters from My Mill
Alphonse Daudet
Louis Lambert
Honoré de Balzac
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Mademoiselle Maupin
Miss Maupin
Théophile Gautier
Maître Cornelius
Master Cornelius
Honoré de Balzac
Manifeste du surréalisme
Manifesto of Surrealism
André Breton
Massimilla Doni
Honoré de Balzac
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
Pamphile
Alexandre Dumas
Petit Pierre
Little Pierre
France
Physiologie du mariage
Physiology of Marriage
Honoré de Balzac
Port-Tarascon
Alphonse Daudet
Rustiques
Rustics
Louis Pergaud
Salammbô
Gustave Flaubert
Tartarin de Tarascon
Tartarin of Tarascon
Alphonse Daudet
Tartarin sur les Alpes
Tartarin on the Alps
Alphonse Daudet
Terre d'Espagne
Land of Spain
André Bazin
Trois Contes
Three Tales
Gustave Flaubert
Un épisode sous la Terreur
An Episode During the Terror
Honoré de Balzac
Une double famille
A Double Family
Honoré de Balzac
Une fille d'Ève
A Daughter of Eve
Honoré de Balzac
Une passion dans le désert
A Passion in the Desert
Honoré de Balzac
Voyage à Vénus
Journey to Venus
Jules Eyraud
Voyage en Orient
Journey to the East
Gustave Flaubert
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