This Week's Acquisitions
- M. G. Murray, The Vicar of St. Margaret's: Prize Story on the Present-Day Conflict with Sacerdotalism (RTS, 1904). Reprint of this 1899 novel about the dangers of both Roman and Anglo-Catholicism.
- Alice Lang, From Prison to Paradise: A Story of English Peasant Life in 1557 (RTS). Looks like the early twentieth-century reprint of this 1890 historical novel about the Marian persecutions.
- Jane Bowles, My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (FSG, 2005). Short fiction and a novella. There's a brief overview of Bowles' life at the Paul Bowles site.
- Frances Hwang, Transparency: Stories (Back Bay, 2007). Short fiction about the lives of Asian immigrants in the US.
- Richard Hughes, The Wooden Shepherdess (NYRB, 2000). Part II of "The Human Predicament"; includes what exists of Part III.
- Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder: and Other Stories (Nan A. Talese, 2006). Short fiction about multiple generations of a Canadian family.
- Franco Moretti, ed., The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture (Princeton, 2006). Part I of this massive global history of the novel.
- Leslie Mitchell, Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters (Hambledon, 2003). Literary biography of the man now best known for the bad writing contest...
- William Palmer, A Narrative of Events Connected with the Publication of the Tracts for the Times, with Reflections on Existing Tendencies to Romanism, and on the Present Duties and Prospects of Members of the Church (Sparks, 1843). A founding participant in the Oxford Movement backpedals rapidly. There's an online edition at Project Canterbury.