Carmen

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Mariano Fortuny Marsal, José de Madrazo y Agudo and Francisco Goya. A Basque soldier meets a Gypsy woman outside a cigarette factory in Seville, lets her go, and loses everything by degrees: rank, freedom, and the ability to imagine a life without her. Mérimée's novella is drier and crueller than the opera Bizet made of it, and its narrator is a...