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Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Gwinnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Perrault, Charlotte Bronte, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Emile Zola, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gustave Flaubert, Guy Maupassant, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herbert George Wells, Honoré de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, James Fenimore Cooper, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice LeBlanc, Nikolai Gogol, Oscar Wilde, Prosper Mérimée, René Descartes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare
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Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 1 (Characters)
Anton Chekhov, Guy De Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Prosper Mérimée, Mary E. Mann, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert
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Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories
Prosper Mérimée
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Colomba
Prosper Mérimée
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Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories
Prosper Mérimée
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La Vénus d'Ille : Entre passion et fatalité, une déesse antique dévoile son pouvoir dans le sud de la France
Prosper Mérimée
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Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
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Lettres à une autre inconnue
Prosper Mérimée
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Colomba
Prosper Mérimée
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Abbé Aubain and Mosaics
Prosper Mérimée
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How The Redoubt Was Taken : 1896
Prosper Mérimée
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Colomba
Prosper Mérimée
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