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Colomba

Prosper Mérimée

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. . .red and pale by turns, and stirred convulsively in her chair. How admirable is the Italian organization, which can understand poetry without needing a pedant to explain its beauties!

When the canto was finished:

"How beautiful that is!" she exclaimed. "Who wrote it, brother?"

Orso was a little disconcerted, and Miss Lydia answered with a smile that it was written by a Florentine poet, who had been dead for centuries.

"You shall read Dante," said Orso, "when you are at Pietranera."

"Good heavens, how beautiful it is!" said Colomba again, and she repeated three or four tiercets which she had remembered, speaking at first in an undertone; then, growing excited, she declaimed them aloud, with far more expression than her brother had put into his reading.

Miss Lydia was very much astonished.

"You seem very fond of poetry," she said. "How I envy you the delight you will find in reading Dante for the . . . Read More

Community Reviews

nice happy ending just like all books should have

The 19th century French romantics were fascinated by La Corse, a fairly recent acquisition that had not only spawned Napoleon, but whose savage inhabitants' code of justice presented such an ongoing anachronism to the mainland's progressive society.

Colomba is the best of the several novels by French

Priča o krvnoj osveti nije nepoznata ni na našim prostorima. Smatram da je dobro što je civilizacija toliko napredovala, pa je primenjivanjem Zakona došlo do ukidanja krvne osvete. Ipak "Kolomba" ukazuje i na još nešto: kada je jedna strana sklona podmetanju i falsifikovanju činjenica, čini se da je

"Ya nadie tiene valor hoy en día, y los jóvenes se preocupan de la sangre de sus padres como si todos fueran bastardos"

Me gustó mucho esta obra de Mérimée aunque me quedo con "Carmen". de hecho lo primero a decir es que el título de esta novela no grafica adecuadamente toda la historia, le faltó fue

‎دوستانِ گرانقدر، این داستان که عنوانِ اصلی آن <کلمبا> میباشد، از 17 فصل تشکیل شده است، میتوان گفت که درخشانترین اثرِ <پروسپه مری مه> نویسندهٔ فرانسوی میباشد
‎داستان، حکایتِ انتقام است و شجاعت و شرف و قوانینِ منسوخِ قومی و قبیله ای... داستان در موردِ دختری شجاع و با غیرت به نامِ <کلمبا> که به دنبالِ

3,5 ....ποιο πολυ μου έχει μείνει η εξαιρετική τηλεοπτική σειρά ( ενδεχόμενος λέγω εικόνας )

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