# Carmen

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/prosper-merimee/carmen/9781847498977

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/prosper-merimee/carmen/9781847498977.json

![Carmen](https://quivercdn.com/covers/alma-classics/prosper-merimee/carmen_978-18-4749-897-7-5e238d89.webp?v=2026-10-17%2012%3A25%3A25)

- Book: [Carmen](https://www.bookquiver.com/prosper-merimee/carmen) ([Carmen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/prosper-merimee/carmen.md))
- Authors: [Prosper Mérimée](https://www.bookquiver.com/prosper-merimee), [George Burnham Ives](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-burnham-ives)
- Publisher: Alma Classics
- ISBN: 978-18-4749-897-7
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2023-03-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When the Basque dragoon Don José meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding, he is immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested for injuring a co-worker and he helps her to flee, he is imprisoned and demoted, but she repays him at their next meeting with a day of excess and a night of love. As Carmen continues to exert her spell, José is dragged further and further into a seedy world of smugglers, robbers, fiery passions and uncontrollable jealousy – one that he will find difficult to escape alive. Carmen, the archetype of the amoral femme fatale, is Prosper Mérimée’s highest creation, and a model for many subsequent literary heroines. First published in 1846, this story of crime and desire – here accompanied by another famous novella by Mérimée, The Venus of Ille – has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous 1875 opera of the same name by Georges Bizet.