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  • How The Redoubt Was Taken

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    A friend of mine, a soldier, who died in Greece of fever some years since, described to me one day his first engagement. His story so impressed me that I wrote it down from memory. It was as follows: I joined my regiment on September 4th. It was evening. I found the colonel in the camp. He received me rather bruskly, but having read the general's introductory letter he changed his manner and ... Read more

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  • Quatre contes de Prosper Mérimée

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    Prosper Mérimée was born in Paris, on the 28th of September, 1803, and died at Cannes, on the 23d of September, 1870. His grandfather on his father's side was a lawyer, his father a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. His mother, a grand daughter of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont, the author of "The Beauty and the Beast" and other juvenile stories, was a painter of merit, like his father, and had a ... Read more

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  • Carmen

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    Carmen is a novella by Prosper Mérimée, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous opera by Georges Bizet. ... Read more

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  • PROSPER MÉRIMÉE'S SHORT STORIES

    by PROSPER MÉRIMÉE ...
    The collection likely includes some of Mérimée's most famous short stories, such as "Carmen," "Mateo Falcone," "The Venus of Ille," and "Colomba." Each story showcases Mérimée's mastery of narrative technique, as well as his keen understanding of human nature and society."Carmen" is perhaps Mérimée's most famous work, telling the story of a passionate and enigmatic Romani woman and her tragic ... Read more

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  • Carmen

    by Prosper Merimee ...
    Carmen by Prosper Mérimée is a powerful and provocative novella that explores passion, freedom, obsession, and fate against the vibrant backdrop of nineteenth-century Spain. A story that has inspired countless adaptations—most famously the celebrated opera—it remains a timeless tale of desire and destruction. The narrative unfolds through the recollections of Don José, a former soldier whose life ... Read more

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  • Mateo Falcone

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    COMING out of Porto-Vecchio, and turning northwest toward the center of the island, the ground is seen to rise very rapidly, and, after three hours’ walk by tortuous paths, blocked by large bowlders of rocks, and sometimes cut by ravines, the traveler finds himself on the edge of a very broad maquis, or open plateau. These plateaus are the home of the Corsican shepherds, and the resort of those ... Read more

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  • Carmen

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    I had always suspected the geographical authorities did not know what they were talking about when they located the battlefield of Munda in the county of the Bastuli-Poeni, close to the modern Monda, some two leagues north of Marbella. According to my own surmise, founded on the text of the anonymous author of the Bellum Hispaniense, and on certain information culled from the excellent library ... Read more

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  • Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    Translated by George Burnham Ives ...
    "Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories" by Prosper Mérimée (translated by George Burnham Ives). Published by e-artnow. e-artnow publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each e-artnow edition has been meticulously edited and ... Read more

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  • Abbe Aubain and Mosaics

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    Mérimée's temperament was really that of the scholar, not of the artist, and even his art came to him as a kind of scholarship. He did one thing after another, as if challenging himself to accomplish a certain end, and then, that end accomplished, he no longer cared to repeat it. That is the scholar's way, not the artist's; and the scholar's instinct is seen, too, in that too purely critical ... Read more

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  • Carmen

    by Prosper Mérimée ...
    Prosper Mérimée’s original novella that was famous adapted as an opera by Georges Bizet. ... Read more

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  • Carmen, in English translation

    by Prosper Merimee ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Prosper Mérimée (September 28, 1803September 23, 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen." ... Read more

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  • Carmen

    by Prosper Merimee ...
    Translated by Geeorge Burnham Ives ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    The novella that was the basis for perhaps the most popular opera of all time, Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen is the swashbuckling story of a nineteenth-century Spanish soldier who deserts his post to pursue the fiery gypsy beauty, Carmen—who is as brave as she is fickle.The opera’s plot, it turns out, is based only on part of the larger adventure that is Carmen. The story opens, for example, with the ... Read more

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