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Gloria e sventura - Canti repubblicani

Giuseppe Ricciardi

Il volume raccoglie canti politici di Giuseppe Ricciardi, pubblicati a Parigi nel 1839, incentrati sulla condizione dell’Italia e della Sicilia sotto la dominazione straniera. I testi richiamano episodi storici di resistenza italiana e sostengono un’azione nazionale ispirata da energia civica e da un orientamento repubblicano, contro la fiducia nei sovrani e negli interventi esterni. Un’attenzione particolare è rivolta anche alla repressione seguita ai fatti siciliani del 1837.

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The planet of peril

Otis Adelbert Kline

Robert Ellsmore Grandon is a dissatisfied young man from wealthy Chicago life, hungry for purpose and adventure beyond the routines arranged by his aunt. After being approached in the theater by a stranger, he loses consciousness and awakens confined in a locked, barred room where he meets Harry Thorne and Dr. Morgan. They begin questioning him about telepathy and astral projection, indicating that his abduction is tied to unusual psychic experimentation and the larger danger awaiting him in the story.

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Mavericks

W. C. Tuttle

In the Southwest near the Painted Desert, three men flee after a stage robbery with stolen gold, one of them badly wounded. When they reach a shack they expect to hide in, they discover two babies inside and learn the injured man is the children’s father, who asks them to protect the infants and send them to his sister in Denver. The story centers on the robbers’ uneasy choice between escaping with the loot and taking responsibility for the children.

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The dilemma of the liberated

Gorham Bert Munson

Gorham Munson presents this 1930 study as an interpretation of twentieth-century humanism, especially the New Humanism associated with American literary criticism. He treats it as more than a school of letters, arguing that it offers a broader critique of modern civilization and addresses the practical question of how to live after older authorities and conventions have weakened. The book is aimed at readers who want books to clarify life rather than merely supply literary interest.

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The voice of El-lil

Robert E. Howard

A frame narrator in a busy port meets a large Englishman who is disturbed by the sound of a gong and begins telling why it unnerves him. Bill Kirby recounts how he and John Conrad, an American bug collector, trekked into the unknown back country of Somaliland after hearing a mysterious voice from the jungle. As their expedition moved deeper into wild country, local carriers grew frightened by tales of a curse, then deserted, while the strange sound continued to draw the two men onward.

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Evidence

Murray Leinster

In a hot Texas setting, the narrator rides with Jimmy Calton, who is headed to see the coroner after Abe Martin has been shot and Harry Temple has been arrested. Jimmy talks in his characteristic mix of English and Spanish while driving his old car, and the ride turns into a discussion of reason, lying, and how people decide guilt. His comments suggest he believes the accusation against Temple is dubious and that the circumstances around the killing should be examined more carefully.

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Clever—?

Jack Woodford

Janice is finishing the evening alone in a small Chicago restaurant when a smooth, theatrical-looking customer unsettles her. Another man enters with a gun, robs the cash register, and tries to force her into the kitchen, but the first customer intercepts him, recovers the money and gun, and explains that he had been waiting to stop the holdup. After the danger passes, he jokingly serves her water and speaks with playful confidence as they prepare to close the shop together.

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Recluses

Raymond S. Spears

Recluses is a short story about Queen, a dog raised from wolf stock who lives among sportsmen at the Cougar Den camp on the edge of the wilderness. Though she shows the manners of a domestic dog, she keeps much of her wild skill, hunts fish and game, and later roams with a wolf mate named President while avoiding people and hunters. The story follows her movements between camp life, the open country, and periods of retirement when she raises wolf pups.

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Five miles to Perdition

Henry Herbert Knibbs

Set in the rough town of Perdition, this western follows Young Pete and Dave Hamill as they ride in, eat at a restaurant, and run into City Marshal Collins, who demands their guns be surrendered before they can stay in town. Pete stalls the marshal by insisting on receipts and claiming the weapon is empty, drawing the attention of a gambler known as the Spider, who offers help and advice. The story also sketches Perdition as a place of petty graft, armed control, and quick disputes over money, horses, and authority.

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The death's head meteor

Neil R. Jones

Set in the twenty-sixth century, this science-fiction story follows interplanetary radio communications between Earth and Mars and the work of a Meteorological Bureau that monitors conditions in space. After a message warns of several large meteors passing near Mars, the bureau orders Jan Trenton and other space flyers to prepare at once and gather samples, along with any valuable stones or metals they may find. The opening also establishes a world of specialized spacecraft, advanced radio equipment, and routine traffic among Earth, Mars, and Venus.

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Maxwell Drewitt, vol. 2 of 2

Mrs. J. H. Riddell

In this volume of Mrs. J. H. Riddell’s Irish fiction, Maxwell Drewitt is confronted with a challenge to his plans for Kincorth when a younger Drewitt, Brian, takes charge and begins changing the property’s management. Maxwell reacts angrily as attorney Ryan reports that the interest has not been demanded, the papers are being held back, and Geoffry Pryor may be backing the opposing side. The story centers on Maxwell’s frustration, his dealings with Ryan, and the shifting control of the Drewitt estate.

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Il salotto della contessa Maffei e la società milanese (1834-1886)

Raffaello Barbiera

Il libro ricostruisce il salotto di Clara Maffei a Milano, indicandolo come per circa mezzo secolo un celebre centro d’incontro per patrioti, letterati, artisti italiani e ospiti stranieri. Ne mette in luce l’influenza nella vita culturale e patriottica del periodo 1849-1859 e descrive la contessa come figura capace di riunire intelligenze diverse con discrezione e finezza. L’opera si apre anche sul suo profilo familiare e biografico, dalla nascita a Bergamo alle origini dei Carrara-Spinelli e alla figura del padre poeta e pedagogista.

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The works of Plato (Vol. 2 of 6)

Plato

This volume brings together three connected dialogues from Plato’s later period: the Republic, the Timæus, and the Critias. It presents the Republic as a summary of Plato’s ethical thought, the Timæus as his account of the universe and human nature, and the Critias as an unfinished mythical continuation of the Timæus. The surrounding editorial matter also explains the translation’s sources, notes, and introductory framing of Plato’s philosophy and life.

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The greatest adventure

John Taine

John Taine’s novel follows Dr. Eric Lane, an explorer-archeologist leading a small party across Antarctica after hearing of a strange organism recovered from nearby waters. Lane believes the creature has been made rather than naturally formed, and his search for fossils or ruins threatens to uncover living horrors instead. The book is set against Lane’s domestic life in San Francisco, where he is a widower living with his daughter Edith and reflecting on science, chance, and the different fortunes of men.

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Pickman's model

H. P. Lovecraft

In this horror story, a Boston narrator explains to a friend why he has avoided Richard Upton Pickman, a painter whose work he admires despite its disturbing subject matter. He describes Pickman as an unusually gifted artist whose images of dread seem to come from an uncanny vision, and he recalls how other acquaintances were repelled by the painter and by works such as Ghoul Feeding. The narrator also hints at a hidden North End studio, Pickman's disappearance, and his own growing fear of places like the subway and cellars.

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