This Week's Acquisitions
- Anne Donovan, Gone are the Leaves (Canongate, 2014). In a Scottish castle long ago, a young girl (seamstress) and a young boy (singer) contemplate their possible destinies. (Skoob)
- Captain Frederick Marryat, The Pirate and The Three Cutters (Nonsuch, 2006). Reprint of two maritime adventure novellas by Marryat. More about Capt. Marryat here. (Skoob)
- Fergus Hulme, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Text Classics, 2013). Reprint of this seminal Australian detective novel, in which events are sparked off by the discovery of a man's quite dead body in a cab. (Skoob)
- Kathleen Blake, Pleasures of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy (Oxford, 2009). Analyzes the significance of Utilitarianism for understanding Victorian fiction and culture, including imperialism, factory work, suffering, &c. (Judd Books)
- Raymond Flood, Adrian Rice, and Robin Wilson, Mathematics in Victorian Britain (Oxford, 2011). Mathematics in all its forms--pure, applied, statistical, in Darwin, and so on. Printed in the smallest type I have ever seen--with the aid of a magnifying glass, that is. (Judd Books)