Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist                          

Selected Works:

Novels, novellas and short stories:

1913 - L'Enfant chargé de chaînes - Young Man in Chains - translated 1961
1914 - La Robe prétexte - The Stuff of Youth - translated 1960
1920 - La Chair et le Sang - Flesh and Blood - translated 1954
1921 - Préséances - Questions of Precedence - translated 1958

1922 - Le Baiser au lépreux - The Kiss to the Leper - translated 1923 - A Kiss to the Leper - translated 1950

1923 - Le Fleuve de feu - The River of Fire - translated 1954
1923 - Génitrix - Genetrix - translated 1950
1923 - Le Mal - The Enemy - translated 1949

1925 - Le Désert de l'amour - The Desert of Love - translated 1949
 (Awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, 1926.

1927 - Thérèse Desqueyroux - Thérèse - translated 1928 - Thérèse Desqueyroux - translated 1947 and 2005
1928 - Destins - Destinies - translated 1929 - Lines of Life - translated 1957
1929 - Trois Récits A volume of three stories: Coups de couteau, 1926; Un homme de lettres, 1926; Le Démon de la connaissance, 1928
1930 - Ce qui était perdu - Suspicion - translated 1931 - That Which Was Lost - translated 1951
1932 - Le Nœud de vipères - Vipers' Tangle - translated 1933 - The Knot of Vipers - translated 1951
1933 - Le Mystère Frontenac - The Frontenac Mystery - translated 1951 - The Frontenacs - translated 1961
1935 - La Fin de la nuit - The End of the Night - translated 1947
1936 - Les Anges noirs - The Dark Angels - translated 1951 - The Mask of Innocence - translated 1953
1938 - Plongées A volume of five stories: Thérèse chez le docteur, 1933 - Thérèse and the Doctor - translated 1947; Thérèse à l'hôtel, 1933 - Thérèse at the Hotel - translated 1947; Le Rang; Insomnie; Conte de Noël.
1939 - Les Chemins de la mer - The Unknown Sea - translated 1948
1941 - La Pharisienne - A Woman of Pharisees - translated 1946
1951 - Le Sagouin - The Weakling - translated 1952 - The Little Misery - translated 1952 - A novella
1952 - Galigaï - The Loved and the Unloved - translated 1953
1954 - L'Agneau - The Lamb - translated 1955
1969 - Un adolescent d'autrefois - Maltaverne - translated 1970
1972 - Maltaverne. The unfinished sequel to the previous novel; posthumously published.

Plays:

1938 - Asmodée - Asmodée; or, The Intruder - translated 1939 - Asmodée: A Drama in Three Acts - translated 1957
1945 - Les Mal Aimés
1948 - Passage du malin
1951 - Le Feu sur terre

Poetry:

1909 - Les Mains jointes
1911 - L'Adieu à l'Adolescence
1925 - Orages
1940 - Le Sang d'Atys.                          

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française -  1926 
member of the Académie française - 1933 
Nobel Prize in Literature - 1952 
Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur -