Pellico S. My dungeons: Memoirs (translated from Italian); Stilgebauer E. Purpur (translated from German); Seaton-Merryman G. In Velvet Claws (translated from English) The collection includes works telling about little-known and mysterious events of the nineteenth century. Memoirs of the Italian writer and carbonari Silvio Pellico, the author of the tragedy “Francesca da Rimini”, describe all the horrors of his ten-year-old imprisonment in prisons in Italy and Austria. The action of E. Stilgebauer's novel takes readers to one of the German principalities. The novel by the English writer G. Seaton-Merriman tells the story of Spain during the Second Carlist War (1872–1876).