A collection of Mérimée’s short fiction in English, with an introduction on his scholarly temperament. It includes the epistolary Abbé Aubain, the Corsican tragedy Mateo Falcone, the slave-ship story Tamango, the war piece How We Stormed the Fort, The Vision of Charles XI, The Game of Backgammon and The Etruscan Vase.
Lean, ironic tales from the author of Carmen, a master of the French short story. Download the free EPUB.