The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Keith Roberts, Pavane (Del Rey, 2001). Reprint of Roberts' famous alternative history, which imagines a world in which Elizabeth I was assassinated.

  • Janice Galloway, Clara (Simon & Schuster, 2002). Historical novel about Clara Schumann.

  • Richard Powers, Gain (Picador, 1998). The interlaced stories of a woman with ovarian cancer and a corporation founded in the nineteenth century.

  • Emile Zola, Truth, trans. Ernest A. Vizetelly (Prometheus, 2002). Zola's last novel, loosely inspired by the Dreyfus case. Anti-anti-semitic, but also anti-catholic. Zola's famous "J'accuse!" is here (in French).
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