Author:Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée
(1803–1870)

Prosper Mérimée

Works

Collected works

• The Writings of Prosper Mérimée (Complete Novels, Tales, and Letters) in 8 volumes, edited by George Saintsbury (c. 1906)
  • Vol. I Carmen (transcription project)
    • "Carmen"
    • "Arsène Guillot"
    • "Abbé Aubain"
  • Vol. II Colomba (transcription project)
  • Vol. III The Mosaic (transcription project)
    • "Mateo Falcone", "The Vision of Charles XI", "The Taking of the Redoubt", "Tamango", "The Pearl of Toledo", "The Game of Backgammon", "The Etruscan Vase", "The Conspirators", "Federigo", "Letters from Spain"
  • Vol. IV The Double Mistake (transcription project)
    • "The Double Mistake"
    • "Souls in Purgatory"
    • "The Venus of Ille"
  • Vol. V Last Stories and Translations (1906) (transcription project)
    • Stories: "Lokis", "The 'Viccolo' of Madam Lucrezia", "The Blue Chamber", "Djoûmane", "The Spanish Witches"
    • Translations from A. S. Pushkin: "The Pistol Shot", "The Queen of Spades", "The Bohemians", "The Hussar"
  • Vol. VI The Reign of Charles IX (transcription project)
  • Vol. VII Letters to an Unknown I (transcription project)
  • Vol. VIII Letters to an Unknown II (transcription project)

Short stories

• "La Vénus d'Ille" (1835)
  • "The Venus of Ille" translated by Edgar Everston Saltus (1898)
  • "The Venus of Ille" in The Writings of Prosper Mérimée volume 4 (c. 1906) (transcription project)
• "Il Viccolo di Madama Lucrezia"
  • "Il Viccolo di Madama Lucrezia" translated by E. P. Robins in Tales of To-day and Other Days (1891)
  • "The 'Viccolo' of Madam Lucrezia" in The Writings of Prosper Mérimée volume 5 (c. 1906) (transcription project)
• "Vision de Charles XI" in Revue de Paris (1829)
  • "Remarkable Vision of Charles XI. of Sweden" in Fraser's Magazine (1830) (external scan) (transcription project)
  • "The Vision of Charles XI. of Sweden" in New Monthly Belle Assemblée (1836) (external scan)
  • "Vision of Charles the Eleventh of Sweden" in The Gentleman's Magazine (1876) (external scan)
  • "The Vision of Charles XI" in The Writings of Prosper Mérimée volume 3 (c. 1906)
• "L’Enlèvement de la redoute" in Revue de Paris (1829)
  • "My First Affair" in The United Service Journal (1830) (external scan) (transcription project)
  • "How the Redoubt was Taken" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (2) (February, 1891)
  • "The Taking of the Redoubt" in The Writings of Prosper Mérimée volume 3 (c. 1906)
• "Mateo Falcone" in Revue de Paris (1829)
  • "Toniotto" in The Twelve Nights (1831) (transcription project)
  • "Mateo Falcone" in The Writings of Prosper Mérimée volume 3 (c. 1906) (transcription project)

Other works

• "Preface" in Nikolai Gogol's The Mantle and Other Stories, translated by Claud Field (1916)

Works about Mérimée

• "Mérimée, Prosper," by George Saintsbury in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "An Essay on the Genius and Achievement of the Author", an introduction to The Writings of Prosper Mérimée, by George Saintsbury (c. 1906)
• "Mérimée's Letters" in French Poets and Novelists (London: Macmillan & Co., 1878), by Henry James (1878)