TY - BOOK AU - Mérimée,Prosper AU - Loyd,Mary,Lady TI - Colomba AV - PQ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Revenge -- Fiction KW - Murder -- Fiction KW - Vendetta -- Fiction KW - Corsica (France) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomba_(novella); Release date is 2006-03-28; Produced by Dagny; Emma Dudding; John Bickers; David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Colomba" by Prosper Mérimée is a novella published in 1840. Set in Corsica, it follows Lieutenant Orso della Rebbia as he returns home to face an impossible choice. His sister Colomba demands he avenge their father's death, while an Englishwoman urges him toward peace. Caught between family honor and conscience, Orso must navigate the dangerous world of Corsican vendettas. Using techniques that foreshadow detective fiction, Mérimée crafts a tense narrative of revenge, duty, and moral conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2708 ER -