This Week's Acquisitions
- Edward Montague, The Demon of Sicily: A Romance (Valancourt, 2007). 200th anniversary edition of this post-The Monk Gothic, featuring evil spirits, monks and nuns, etc.
- Francis Prevost, Rust of Gold (Valancourt, 2007). Late-Victorian short-story collection.
- Christopher Bram, Lives of the Circus Animals (Morrow, 2003). Social satire set in the New York theatre scene.
- Jack Lynch, Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard (Walker & Company, 2007). How Shakespeare became Shakespeare.
- Jan Jedrezejewski, George Eliot (Routledge, 2007). A brief introduction to her life and work, targeted to neophytes. I'm reviewing it for Choice.