Colomba

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Joseph Vernet, Hendrik Frans van Lint and Francesco Guardi. A young Corsican lieutenant comes home from the French army to find his sister has kept the vendetta warm for both of them — his father was shot from behind a wall, and Colomba knows exactly who did it and what a brother is for. Mérimée was inspector-general of historical monuments for ...