Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Compact Tales of Passion, Honor, Revenge, and the Uncanny in Nineteenth-Century French FictionBy Prosper Mérimée
Length5h 36m
About this audiobook
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 for their cool narrative restraint, archaeological precision, and sudden eruptions of the uncanny or brutal. Mérimée (1803–1870), a French writer, historian, linguist, and inspector-general of historic monuments, brought to fiction the eye of a scholar and the curiosity of a traveler. His journeys in Spain and Corsica, his interest in local customs, oral traditions, architecture, and marginal cultures, and his skepticism toward sentimental excess all helped shape narratives that appear detached yet probe deeply into honor, desire, superstition, and social codes. This collection is recommended to readers interested in nineteenth-century European fiction at its most elegant and unsettling. Mérimée offers neither moral comfort nor decorative exoticism alone; instead, he presents compact tragedies in which civilization and savagery, reason and obsession, art and violence remain disturbingly entwined.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 6, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
8Footnote
2Introduction
9The Taking of the Redoubt
3Author Biography
10Mateo Falcone
4Historical Context
11The Venus of Ille
5Synopsis (Selection)
12Analysis
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6I
13Reflection
7IV
14Memorable Quotes
Colomba (Annoté)Prosper Mérimée6h 54m$1.99 · $0.00
Die etruskische Vase (Kommentiert)Prosper Mérimée2h 44m4.5 (12)$1 · $0.00
Arsène Guillot (Kommentiert)Prosper Mérimée3h 38m4.3 (11)$1 · $0.00
Gesammelte Erzählungen (Kommentiert)Prosper Mérimée7h 58m$1 · $0.00
CarmenProsper Mérimée3h 21m3.8 (8.7K)$2 · $0.00
How The Redoubt Was TakenProsper Mérimée11m3.7 (21)$2 · $0.00
CarmenProsper Mérimée3h 44m3.9 (29.4K)$2 · $0.00
CarmenProsper Mérimée2h 8m3.8 (12.4K)$1 · $0.00
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Arsène GuillotProsper Mérimée2h 9m3.5 (125)$1 · $0.00
CarmenProsper Mérimée2h 18m3.9 (12.6K)$2 · $0.00
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