This Week's Acquisitions
- Lucy Ellen Guernsey, Winifred; Or, An English Maiden in the Seventeenth Century, new ed. (John F. Shaw, c. 1890s). Yet another historical novel about the Monmouth Rebellion--this time, by an American novelist (from Rochester, NY). There's some information about Guernsey and her sister here (PDF).
- "Lucas Malet," The Wages of Sin (1890; Nelson, n.d.). Late-Victorian novel about, well, sex and death. (Molly Youngkin argues that the novel influenced Jude the Obscure.) Lucas Malet is the pseudonym of Charles Kingsley's daughter, Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison; for more information, see the Literary Encyclopedia. Two of her novels are at the Victorian Women Writers Project; see also one of her later short stories.
- Liam O'Flaherty, Famine: A Novel (Godine, 1982). Reprint of this well-known historical novel about the Irish Famine.
- Reginald Hill, The Death of Dalziel: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel (HarperCollins, 2007). Newest D&P, featuring terrorists, bombs, and a comatose Dalziel. (Must. Grade. Papers. Must. Not. Read. Newest. D&P.)
- Robert Anderson, Little Fugue (Ballantine, 2005). Novel about how Sylvia Plath's suicide affects both her family and her audience.
- Laura Esquivel, Malinche (Atria, 2006). Historical novel about "La Malinche," the slave who was Cortés' translator in his negotiations with Montezuma.
- Emily Sarah Holt, Lights in the Darkness (John F. Shaw, n.d.). Collection of four biographies of outstanding Christian figures.
- Samuel Pufendorf, Present State of Germany (Liberty Fund, 2007). Newest entry in Liberty Fund's Natural Law and Enlightenment series.