This Week's Acquisitions
- Sadie Jones, The Outcast (Harper, 2008). A young boy's family implodes after WWII. (Review copy)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (Harcourt, 2008). Rewrite of The Aeneid from the POV of Aeneas' wife #2. (eBay)
- Bruce Arnold, Irish Art: A Concise History (Praeger, 1968). Early edition of oft-reprinted introduction to Irish art from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth c. (Campus library booksale)
- John Burrow, A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century (Knopf, 2008). New general history of historiography. (HBC)
- Matthew Dennison, The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter (St. Martin's, 2008). Biography of Princess Beatrice. (HBC)