This novel formed the basis for Bizet's Carmen.If you are going to see Carmen it could be useful to read the book beforehand otherwise you may not have a clue as to what is going on.
Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Gwinnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Perrault, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Émile Zola, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gustave Flaubert, Guy Maupassant, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.G. 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
Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, EDGAR ALLAN POE, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Saki, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Ring Lardner, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, James Joyce & Anton Chekhov