22/07/2024
The Gray Plague
End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells’ WOTW and In The Days of the Comet — looks like fun ! [chương_files]
Essay/Short nonfiction
22/07/2024
Moon Master
Through Infinite Deeps of Space Jerry Foster Hurtles to the Moon—Only to be Trapped by a Barbaric Race and Offered as a Living Sacrifice to Oong, their Loathsome, Hypnotic God. [chương_files]
22/07/2024
The Illustrated War News
THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, N.B.–REMOVE INSETTED LEAFLET, DEC. 30 1914. THE GREAT WAR. In reviewing the events of the last week throughout the world-wide area of war, let us begin with the Dark Continent, where everything went in our favour–very brilliantly so. First of all, then, we may now be said to have completed our conquest of the German Cameroon country by taking possession of the whole of the railway which runs northward from Bonabari, and is now in the hands of our troops. A similar fate is reserved, at no distant date, for German South Africa, against which General Botha–a man no less brave and dashing as a soldier than sagacious as a statesman–is preparing to lead a conquering force. Having stamped out the rebellion within the Union itself–crushing it literally like a beetle–he is now addressing himself to the task. [chương_files]
22/07/2024
The Scrap Book Sampler
18 works — two non-fic articles & one short fiction or poetry each — from issues March, April, May, June, July, & August 1906 of The Scrap Book, Volume 1, edited by Frank Munsey. As he states in the editorial of the April 1906 issue (Vol 1, Iss 2) this was a sort of supplement to the editor’s popular monthly, Munsey’s Magazine. The Scrap Book is very like an American version of Punch with many short, often humorous articles interspersed with at least one short story, some poetry, and several longer non-fic pieces. The Scrap Book ran up to 1922. [chương_files]
22/07/2024
永日小品 (Eijitsu Syohin)
This is a collection of essays by Soseki Natsume. They were published in the Asahi Newspaper in 1909. Included are essays about daily life in Tokyo and his experiences in London. これは、夏目漱石の随筆集です。1909年に朝日新聞に連載されました。東京での日常生活、ロンドンでの経験などが含まれています。 [chương_files]
22/07/2024
Dialogo delle lingue
Pubblicato nel 1542, questo dialogo espone le teorie sulla lingua italiana che, già dal secolo precedente, presero forma, cercando di trasformare il volgare italiano, ancora instabile grammaticalmente, in una vera e propria lingua regolata da norme. I protagonisti del dialogo sono: Bembo (Pietro Bembo), sostenitore del volgare colto e che prende come modelli il Decameron del Boccaccio e il Canzoniere del Petrarca; Lazaro (Lazzaro Bonamico), cultore del latino e spregiatore dell’uso colto del volgare; un Cortegiano, portavoce della teoria di Baldassarre Castiglione, che propone di aprire il volgare di base toscana alle influenze di altre regioni e lingue; uno Scolare che riporta un dialogo tra Lascari (Giano Lascaris), professore di greco, sostenitore dell’indissolubilità tra concetto e parola, e Peretto (Pietro Pomponazzi – detto Peretto per la bassa statura), filosofo aristotelico, che auspica l’utilizzo del dialetto nell’esercizio dell’attività speculativa, per non perdere tempo inutile nello studio delle parole a scapito delle “cose”.(Summary by Riccardo Fasol) [chương_files]
22/07/2024
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences
This is Mark Twain’s vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper’s literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain’s essay, Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses (often spelled “Offences”) (1895), particularly criticized The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder. Twain wrote at the beginning of the essay: ‘In one place in Deerslayer, and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.’ Twain listed 19 rules ‘governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction’, 18 of which Cooper violates in The Deerslayer. (Introduction by Wikipedia and John Greenman) [chương_files]
22/07/2024
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain’s more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species’ need to “be remembered” somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are “whimsical”. Taken individually, they speak the truth in different ways. (Introduction by John Greenman) [chương_files]
22/07/2024
Tolstoy on Shakespeare
This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. It is followed by another essay named “Shakespeare’s attitude to the working classes” by Ernest Crosby and extracts of a letter by George Bernard Shaw. [chương_files]
22/07/2024
The Freedmen’s Book
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an inspiration to freed slaves. In her dedication to the freedmen, she urges those who can read to read these stories aloud to others to share the strength, courage and accomplishments of colored men and women. In that spirit, this recording aims to gives that voice a permanent record. As in the original text, the names of the colored authors are marked with an “x”. [chương_files]