Essential Novelists - Edmond About: anti-clerical writer

Masters of Prose - Émile Zola

Essential Novelists - Stendhal: modern consciousness of reality

7 best short stories by Honoré de Balzac

7 best short stories by Guy de Maupassant

7 best short stories by Théophile Gautier

Masters of Prose - Jules Verne

Masters of Prose - Guy de Maupassant

Essential Novelists - Anatole France: a true gallic temperament

Essential Novelists - Guy De Maupassant: aspects of french life

Masters of Prose - Franz Kafka

7 best short stories by Mór Jókai

7 best short stories by Giovanni Verga

7 best short stories by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Essential Novelists - Gabriele D'Annunzio: the aesthetic of excess

Essential Novelists - James Joyce: modernist avant-garde

Masters of Poetry - Percy Shelley

7 best short stories by Frank L. Packard

7 best short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman