Les Grands Classiques de la littérature en bande dessinée () is a French-language series of comic books published in 2017 and 2018 by Glénat Éditions in collaboration with Le Monde and France Bleu. It consists of 48 adaptations of literary classics. The series incorporates that had been made for two earlier classics series, published in 2007–2008 and 2010.
Background The publishing house Adonis published a series in 2007–2008 titled Romans de toujours () which consisted of French-language comic books inspired by classic novels. In 2010, Glénat Éditions published the series Les Incontournables de la littérature en BD (), which reissued 8 of the 10 albums from the Adonis series and added 22 further titles.
Glénat collaborated with the French newspaper Le Monde and the radio network France Bleu to publish Les Grands Classiques de la littérature en bande dessinée in 2017 and 2018. This series consists of a total of 48 albums and includes the 30 that had been part of the 2010 series.
Reception Le Parisien wrote that despite the many different authors and artists, the collection all together "is of quality".
List of albums Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours by () (Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne) L'Île au trésor by and () (Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson) Notre-Dame de Paris by Claude Carré and () (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo) Robinson Crusoé by and () (Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe) Voyage au centre de la Terre by Curt Ridel and () (Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne) Le Livre de la jungle by () (The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling) La Guerre des mondes by and Alain Zibel () (The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells) Les Misérables, tome 1 by and () (Les Misérables, Victor Hugo) Les Misérables, tome 2 by and () (Les Misérables by Victor Hugo) L'Odyssée by and () (The Odyssey by Homer) Le Capitaine Fracasse by and Bruno Marivain () (Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier) Germinal, Tome 1 by and () (Germinal by Émile Zola) Germinal, Tome 2 by and () (Germinal by Émile Zola) Le Dernier des Mohicans by and Marcel Uderzo () (The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper) Oliver Twist by and () (Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens) De la Terre à la Lune by and Louisa Djouadi () (From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) Autour de la Lune by and Louisa Djouadi () (Around the Moon by Jules Verne) Don Quichotte by , and David Pellet () (Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes) Le Monde Perdu, tome 1 by Anne Porot and () (The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle) Le Monde Perdu, tome 2 by Anne Porot and () (The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle) Tartarin de Tarascon by and Louisa Djouadi () (Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet) Guerre et Paix, tome 1 by and Thomas Campi () (War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy) Guerre et Paix, tome 2 by and Thomas Campi () (War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy) Le conte de Noël by and () (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens) Le Rouge et le Noir, tome 1 by and () (The Red and the Black by Stendhal) Le Rouge et le Noir, tome 2 by and () (The Red and the Black by Stendhal) Michel Strogoff by and () (Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne) Les Contes des Mille et une Nuits by and Nawa () (One Thousand and One Nights) Madame Bovary by and () (Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert) Quo Vadis ? by and CAFU () (Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz) L'Homme invisible, tome 1 by and Christophe Regnault () (The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells) L'Homme invisible, tome 2 by and Christophe Regnault () (The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells) Croc-Blanc by Caterina Mognato and Walter Venturi () (White Fang by Jack London) 20 000 lieues sous les mers by Fabrizio Lo Bianco and Francesco Lo Storto () (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne) Sandokan et le tigre de Mompracem by Stefano Enna and Nico Tamburo () (The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari) Les Trois Mousquetaires by Caterina Mognato and Andres José Mossa () (The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas) Ivanhoé by Stefano Enna and Stefano Garau () (Ivanhoe by Walter Scott) Les aventures de Tom Sawyer by Caterina Mognato and Danilo Loizedda () (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain) L'Île du docteur Moreau by and Fabrizio Fiorentino () (The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells) Agaguk by and () (Agaguk by Yves Thériault) Poil de Carotte by and () (Poil de carotte by Jules Renard) La Guerre des boutons by and () (War of the Buttons by Louis Pergaud) La Machine à explorer le temps by and Mathieu Moreau () (The Time Machine by H. G. Wells) Jacquou le Croquant by and () ( by Eugène Le Roy) Les Malheurs de Sophie by and () (Sophie's Misfortunes by the Countess of Ségur) Les Petites Filles modèles by and () (Good Little Girls by the Countess of Ségur) Alice au pays des merveilles, tome 1 by and () (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll) Alice au pays des merveilles, tome 2 by and () (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
See also Classics Illustrated Marvel Classics Comics PAICO Classics Graphic Classics Classical Comics Marvel Illustrated
References
External links Glénat France Bleu