This Week's Acquisitions
- Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica (NYRB, 1999). Reprint of Hughes' 1929 novel about children, piracy, and assorted other matters on the high seas.
- Maryse Conde, Windward Heights (Soho, 2000). Rewrite of Wuthering Heights, set in Guadeloupe.
- Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1832). Bound volume of the London Missionary Society's journal (another volume arrived last week).