This Week's Acquisitions
- Little and Wise; Or Rabbi Agur's School (RTS, n.d.). A ca. 1900 reprint of this 1872 set of moral fables for children, as supposedly taught by Agur ben Jakeh. Also known as Rabbi Agur's School and Its Four Teachers. (eBay)
- William Mallock, Tristram Lacy, or the Individualist (Macmillan, 1899). Satire of late-Victorian upper-class literary/intellectual circles by the eternally cranky Mallock. Not well-received at the time (this copy is uncut). Mallock is arguably best known for being repurposed. (eBay)
- Thomas Keneally, Shame and the Captives (Atria, 2015). Historical novel based on the real escape of Japanese POWs from a camp near Cowra in 1944. (Amazon)
- Christopher Moore, The Serpent of Venice (Morrow, 2015). Another one of Moore's Shakespeare burlesques (with an added dollop of Poe); no points for guessing which play this is based on. (Lift Bridge)