This Week's Acquisitions
- Patrick McGrath, Port Mungo (Knopf, 2004). Newest novel by the leading practitioner of Neo-Gothic.
- Ross King, Domino (Penguin, 1995). Historical picaresque set in the 1770s.
- Robert Drewe, Ned Kelly (Penguin, 1991). Novel about the famed Australian bandit.
- Sir Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate (Penguin, 2003). "The Highland Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's Daughter," plus editorial persona Chrystal Croftangry.
- Margaret Shepherd, My Life in the Convent (Protestant Book House, n.d.). Anti-Catholic confession of an ex-nun, originally published in the early 1890s.
- Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth, eds., The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry (Penguin, 2003). Nearly 1000 pages of the Big Six and a lot of less famous folks.
- Paul Keegan, ed., The New Penguin Book of English Verse (Penguin, 2001). From Old English to the present.
- David Robertson, Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World (Princeton, 1978). Eastlake as critic, connoisseur, etc. More on Eastlake and his influence here and here; some of his own paintings are on view at the Tate.