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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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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
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Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Compact Tales of Passion, Honor, Revenge, and the Uncanny in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction

by Prosper Mérimée, Daphne Ulwick ...

Translated by George Burnham Ives ...

Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories gathers the work of a master of compression, irony, and dramatic suggestion, whose tales include such landmarks as "Mateo Falcone," "Colomba," "The Venus of Ille," "Lokis," and "Carmen." Written at the intersection of Romantic fascination with passion, violence, folklore, and the exotic, and an emerging realist discipline of observation, these stories are notable ... Read more

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Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories gathers the work of a master of compression, irony, and dramatic suggestion, whose tales include such landmarks as "Mateo Falcone," "Colomba," "The Venus of Ille," "Lokis," and "Carmen." Written at the intersection of Romantic fascination with passion, violence, folklore, and the exotic, and an emerging realist discipline of observation, these stories are notable
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Songs for the Gusle

by Prosper Mérimée ...

The first complete English-language translation of La Guzla, ou Choix de poésies illyriques recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la Croatie et l'Herzégowine, which presents a collection of folk literature from the former Illyrian Provinces. Or does it? It contains short pieces drawing from various genres—ersatz scholarly essays, ballad lyrics presented in the form of prose poems, folk tales, a ... Read more

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The first complete English-language translation of La Guzla, ou Choix de poésies illyriques recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la Croatie et l'Herzégowine, which presents a collection of folk literature from the former Illyrian Provinces. Or does it? It contains short pieces drawing from various genres—ersatz scholarly essays, ballad lyrics presented in the form of prose poems, folk tales, a
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Carmen and Prosper Merimee's Short Stories and The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated From the Arabic of the Famous Traveller

by Prosper Merimee & Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon ...

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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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
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PROSPER MÉRIMÉE'S SHORT STORIES

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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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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
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Foundations of Fiction, The - French Realism

Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

by Alexandre Dumas, Alphonse Daudet, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Prosper Merimee, Victor Hugo ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Richard Mitchley ...

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8 hours 9 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
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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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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
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Carmen and Other Stories

Translated by Nicholas Jotcham ...

by Prosper Mérimée ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
Carmen, Mérimée's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the world's most enduringly popular operas, and numerous films. Like Carmen, the other stories in this book, including Mateo Falcone, The Etruscan Vase, and The Venus of Ille, explore the clash of primitive and civilized values. This is the only selection of Mérimée's short stories available ABOUT THE SERIES: ... Read more

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Carmen, Mérimée's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the world's most enduringly popular operas, and numerous films. Like Carmen, the other stories in this book, including Mateo Falcone, The Etruscan Vase, and The Venus of Ille, explore the clash of primitive and civilized values. This is the only selection of Mérimée's short stories available ABOUT THE SERIES:
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Colomba, 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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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."
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Stories From The Shadows – The French

Embrace the darkness

by Marcel Schwob, Prosper Merimee, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Guy De Maupassant, Anatole France, Honoré de Balzac, Jean Lorrain ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

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4 hours 4 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
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50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories. Vol.1

Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Tolstoy, Joyce, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and many more

by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Thomas Hardy, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Rainer Maria Rilke, H. H. Munro, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Fiodor Dostoievski, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Ring Lardner, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie ...

Narrated by Paul Gibson, Peter Coates, David J Miles, Joe Phoenix, Trevor O'Hare, Mark Bowen, Frank Bailey, David McCord, Abigail Reno, Joanne Thompson, Judy Kriz, Jeremy Albret, Jim Girard, John Lingua, Richard Williams, John Brown, Michael Goodrick, Joshua Szatmari, Carl Hughes ...

Unabridged

42 hours 32 min

This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.It features classics ... Read more

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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.It features classics
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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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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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