This Week's Acquisitions
- [J. M. Neale], Lucia's Marriage; Or, the Lions of Wady-Araba. A Story of the Idumaean Desert (John Henry & James Parker, n.d.). High Church children's novel, set in the early days of Christianity.
- Arthur Philips, Angelica: A Novel (Random House, 2007). Neo-Victorian ghost story.
- May Sinclair, Uncanny Stories (Wordsworth, 2006). Reprint of Sinclair's 1923 collection of ghost stories, one of which can be found here.
- Frances Herrington Williamson, The Daughter of Maschemuth: A Story of the Children's Crusade (Paige, 2005). First publication of a religious historical novel originally written around the turn of the twentieth century. There's a medieval chronicler's account of the (very likely mythical, or at least misunderstood) Crusade at the Medieval Sourcebook; see also Steven Runciman.
- Richard Powers, The Echo Maker: A Novel (FSG, 2006). A comatose man awakens.
- Larry Dark, ed., The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (Atlantic, 1994). Byatt, Gordimer, McGrath, etc.
- Paul Kleber Monod, The Murder of Mr. Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town (Yale, 2004). Microhistory of a homicide that took place in the town of Rye in 1743.
- Adam C. Roberts, Victorian Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary (Arnold, 2003). Literary-historical reference.