The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Phebe Gibbes, Hartly House, Calcutta, ed. Michael Franklin (OUP, 2007).  Scholarly edition of this pioneering Anglo-Indian novel, first published in 1789.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Cynthia Ozick, Dictation: A Quartet (Houghton Mifflin, 2008).  Four short stories, including one about the put-upon secretaries of Henry James and Joseph Conrad.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing (Vintage, 1995).  Second volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations (Liberty Fund, 2008).  New edition of pioneering work on international jurisprudence; part of the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series.  (Liberty Fund [standing order])
  • Lionel Trilling, The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel, ed. Geraldine Murphy (Columbia, 2008).  Trilling's incomplete second novel, about an intellectual at mid-century.  (Columbia [review copy for book event])
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