Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2013-08-24 Public domain in the USA. 384 Mérimée, Prosper 1803 1870 Merimee, Prosper Saintsbury, George 1845 1933 Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman Letters to an Unknown Produced by D Alexander, Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Letters to an Unknown" by Prosper Mérimée is a collection of letters written in the mid-19th century. It presents an intimate correspondence between the narrator and an unnamed woman, exploring themes of love, society, and personal reflections. The letters reveal the narrator’s complex character, marked by both skepticism and a deep, if restrained, emotional fervor. At the start of the work, the narrator shares his thoughts on the paradoxical nature of the recipient’s actions, especially her upcoming retreat to the countryside. He reflects on social conventions, the ironies of human behavior, and his own reservations about self-disparagement. The initial exchanges reveal his playfulness and philosophical musings, providing glimpses into his social experiences in Paris, including a night spent on the Notre Dame roof and observations about ballet dancers. This opening sets the tone for a nuanced exploration of the relationship between the narrator and his correspondent, pitting his intellectual musings against the emotional undercurrents of friendship and potential love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43553/43553-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870 -- Correspondence Dacquin, Jeanne Françoise, 1811-1895 PQ Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: French Literature 924613 2025-07-17T13:15:33.011716 text/html 938746 2013-08-24T14:49:20 text/html 707915 2025-07-17T13:15:44.969640 application/epub+zip 720796 2025-07-17T13:15:34.839643 application/epub+zip 424601 2025-07-17T13:15:33.900710 application/epub+zip 1221765 2025-07-17T13:15:55.277607 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 974234 2025-07-17T13:15:43.811622 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 655264 2022-09-19T20:17:25.939214 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 830348 2025-07-17T13:15:31.276690 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 810468 2024-10-23T18:05:45 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17994 2025-07-17T13:15:55.427536 application/rdf+xml 18791 2025-07-17T13:15:34.026687 image/jpeg 3217 2025-07-17T13:15:33.964671 image/jpeg 678969 2025-07-17T13:15:33.100716 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia