This Week's Acquisitions
- Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada (Scribner, 1998). Very, very revisionist take on Uncle Tom's Cabin, among other things. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Lionel Trilling, The Middle of the Journey (NYRB, 2002). Reprint of Trilling's novel about the trials and travails of leftist intellectuals at midcentury. (eBay)
- Joshua Harmon, Quinnehtukqut (Starcherone, 2007). Experimental historical novel, following a young girl's experiences in New Hampshire. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ruth Brandon, Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres (Walker, 2008). New historical study. See also. (HBC)
- Patricia Allderidge, Richard Dadd (St. Martin's, 1974). Study of the Victorian fairy painter, whose best-known work is probably The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (see also Dadd's explanation). (eBay)
- The Penny Pulpit: A Collection of Accurately-Reported Sermons by the Most Eminent Ministers of Various Denominations (1851-52). Bound volume of Protestant sermons. You can see a later volume here. (eBay)
- Bulletins of the Society of Saint Vincent-de-Paul (1853-54). Bound volume, the only one issued in English. (eBay)