A Survey of French Literature.By Morris Bishop and Kenneth T. Rivers.
Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2005. 5 Volumes.
This 5-volume set lets you browse basic details about the upper-crust of French literature from the Middle Ages through the late 20th Century. The volumes consist of: The Middle Ages and the Sixteenth Century; The Secenteenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Nineteenth Century; and The Twentieth Century. With illustrations, selections from French texts, background information, timelines, footnotes and bibliographies, this set provides an excellent historical overview of French literature. Although there are no indexes, each volume's contents page is thorough.