This Week's Acquisitions
- David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (Random House, 2014). A teenage girl is at the center of mysterious events unfolding over the course of decades. (Amazon)
- Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer (Europa, 2014). Historical novel about E. M. Forster's stay in India and its contribution to A Passage to India. (Amazon)
- Sanford Friedman, Conversations with Beethoven (NYRB, 2014). Posthumously-published epistolary novel imagining the written conversations Beethoven had with his friends and family towards the end of his life. (Amazon)
- Jay P. Dolan, Catholic Revivalism: The American Experience, 1830-1900 (Notre Dame, 1978). Focuses on the Catholic evangelical efforts that paralleled Protestant revivalism in nineteenth-century America. (Amazon [secondhand])
- William George Ward, Essays on the Church's Doctrinal Authority (Burns and Oates, 1880). Infallibility, councils, dangers of liberalism, etc. Most essays were originally published in the Dublin Review, which Ward edited. More on Ward here.