This Last Three Weeks' Acquisitions
- George MacDonald Fraser, The Reavers (Knopf, 2008). Fraser's last novel, featuring adventure, Scotland, and many anachronisms. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Naguib Mahfouz, Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Everyman, 2007). Omnibus collection of three historical novels. (Amazon [secondhand])
- ---, The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Stories (American University in Cairo Press, 2006). Reissued collection of Mahfouz's ghost and horror stories. (eBay)
- Jane Urquhart, A Map of Glass (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2007). Memory, aging and loss in contemporary and nineteenth-century Canada. (Borders)
- Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel (Random House, 2008). Wandering storyteller, beautiful princess, Renaissance Italy, and the Mughal Empire of India. (BOMC)
- John Cheever, Falconer (Knopf, 1977). Murderer winds up in a mysterious prison... (eBay)
- Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity (NYRB, 2006). Cavalry officer pities a young disabled woman, finds himself way out of his emotional depth. (Borders)
- Linda M. Austin, Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 (Virginia, 2007). History of nostalgia's literary and cultural transformations, emphasizing the Victorian period. (eBay)
- Janet L. Larson, Dickens and the Broken Scripture (Georgia, 1986). Dickens' appropriations and revisions of religious language, narrative, and imagery. (eBay)
- The Sunday at Home (1873). Weekly Christian magazine, aimed at families. (eBay)
- Gospel Magazine and Protestant Beacon VII n.s. (1872). Evangelical Protestant journal with a strong anti-Catholic slant. (eBay)
- Mark Hopkins, Nonconformity's Romantic Generation: Evangelical and Liberal Theologies in Victorian England (Wipf & Stock, 2007). Theological controversies over shifting definitions of evangelicalism, etc. (Amazon)
- Michael B. Gross, The War against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Michigan, 2005). Function of anti-Catholic campaigns in liberal political and cultural thought. (eBay)
- Oskar Batschmann, Hans Holbein (Princeton, 1999). Critical study of the great portrait painter. (eBay)