ISBN: 2940000778005

Un soir, à l'heure où l'on ne voit plus rien, je fumais, appuyé sur le parapet du quai, lorsqu'une femme, remontant l'escalier qui conduit à la rivière,… Altro …

Un soir, à l'heure où l'on ne voit plus rien, je fumais, appuyé sur le parapet du quai, lorsqu'une femme, remontant l'escalier qui conduit à la rivière, vint s'asseoir près de moi. Elle avait dans les cheveux un gros bouquet de jasmin, dont les pétales exhalent le soir une odeur enivrante. Elle était simplement, peut-être pauvrement vêtue, tout en noir, comme la plupart des grisettes dans la soirée. Les femmes comme il faut ne portent le noir que le matin ; le soir, elles s'habillent à la francesa. En arrivant auprès de moi, ma baigneuse laissa glisser sur les épaules la mantille qui lui couvrait la tête, et, à l'obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles, je vis qu'elle était petite, jeune, bien faite, et qu'elle avait de très-grands yeux. Je jetai mon cigare aussitôt. Elle comprit cette attention d'une politesse toute française, et se hâta de me dire qu'elle aimait beaucoup l'odeur du tabac, et que même elle fumait, quand elle trouvait des papelitos bien doux. Par bonheur, j'en avais de tels dans mon étui, et je m'empressai de lui en offrir. Elle daigna en prendre un, et l'alluma à un bout de corde enflammé qu'un enfant nous apporta moyennant un sou. Mêlant nos fumées, nous causâmes si longtemps, la belle baigneuse et moi, que nous nous trouvâmes presque seuls sur le quai. Je crus n'être point indiscret en lui offrant d'aller prendre des glaces à la neveria. Après une hésitation modeste elle accepta ; mais avant de se décider, elle désira savoir quelle heure il était. Je fis sonner ma montre, et cette sonnerie parut l'étonner beaucoup. - Quelles inventions on a chez vous, messieurs les étrangers ! De quel pays êtes-vous, monsieur ? Anglais sans doute ?- Taken from Carmen (French Edition) written by Prosper Merimee Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, B&R Samizdat Express Digital >16<

ISBN: 2940000778005

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 sold… Altro …

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 narrator, a historian like Mérimée, researching the lost site of an ancient Roman battle on the plains of Andalusia, when he meets a notorious bandit, Don José Navarro, on the run from the law. Feeling a certain sympathy for Don José, whose face is “at once noble and fierce,” and a vicarious thrill at this brush with danger, he helps the bandit to escape.When they next meet again, Don José is in jail in Cordova, due to be hanged for his crimes. In his last days, he tells the narrator about a wild gypsy woman he met back in Seville . . .What follows is an iconic and highly entertaining tale of doomed passion full of chases, sword fights, bullfights, smuggling, wild dancing, and more—except no mezzo-sopranos. Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, B&R Samizdat Express Digital >16<

ISBN: 2940000778005

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 sold… Altro …

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 narrator, a historian like Mérimée, researching the lost site of an ancient Roman battle on the plains of Andalusia, when he meets a notorious bandit, Don José Navarro, on the run from the law. Feeling a certain sympathy for Don José, whose face is “at once noble and fierce,” and a vicarious thrill at this brush with danger, he helps the bandit to escape.When they next meet again, Don José is in jail in Cordova, due to be hanged for his crimes. In his last days, he tells the narrator about a wild gypsy woman he met back in Seville . . .What follows is an iconic and highly entertaining tale of doomed passion full of chases, sword fights, bullfights, smuggling, wild dancing, and more—except no mezzo-sopranos. Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, B&R Samizdat Express Digital >16<

ISBN: 2940000778005

Clearly a literary great, Prosper Merimee gave his gift to the world many years ago with this classic story. Carmen takes the reader on an interesting adventure through Spain in the 1800s… Altro …

Clearly a literary great, Prosper Merimee gave his gift to the world many years ago with this classic story. Carmen takes the reader on an interesting adventure through Spain in the 1800s. Enjoy Merimee's imagination as you discover what happens when a man falls in love with an alluring criminal who's only rule is to always be free. Large Print (16 Point Font) Richard Foster Classics Collection Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, B&R Samizdat Express Digital >16<

ISBN: 2940000778005

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 m… Altro …

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. Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, B&R Samizdat Express Digital >16<