Can You Suggest Fiction Set In Paris Or Other European Cities?
No dan brown, no cheese. Just really good twisty tales…
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Anything by Honore de balzac. Since his stuff is out of copyright, you can read it or download it free at Project Gutenberg.
Historic Paris is a major character in many of the novels of Emile Zola-
The Debacle
The Masterpiece
The Belly of Paris
Pot Luck
The Ladies Paradise
and loads more.
Also if you like detective fiction many of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon are set in and around Paris-
The Man on the Boulevard
A Mans Head
The Bar on the Seine
and loads more
Hemingway’s A movable feast, as well as dozens of his short stories.
Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Irvine Welsh’s Porno, Glue & Filth all have significant sections in Amsterdam and Germany.
Are we counting European authors, since most of their fiction is set there?
Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson is set in Belfast and London. It’s got quite a few good turns in it. It’s deep enough to be chosen for my college level English class, but still fun to read. It’s probably one of my favorites.
hunchback of notre dame
les miserables
anything by dickens
a connecticut yankee in king arthur’s court
“The Phantom of the Opera” by Gaston Leroux is set in Paris.
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“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is set in Paris.
what about ‘a tale of two cities’ by charles dickens. set in london and paris and a literary classic.
the hunchback of notredame