The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Richard Marsh, The Seen and the Unseen (Valancourt, 2007).  Reprints Marsh's collection of horror stories, first published in 1900.  More on and of Marsh at The Literary Gothic.
  • Andrew Holleran, Grief: A Novel (Hyperion, 2007).  Man in DC muses on love, loss, loneliness, and Mary Todd Lincoln.
  • Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow-Catcher: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2007).  Semi-autobiographical novel involving the photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis and "Marianne Wiggins'" research on same.  You can find examples of Curtis' photography at The Curtis Collection and Edward S. Curtis' The North American Indian; see also American Masters.
  • Mark Slouka, The Visible World (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).  The narrator slowly recreates his parents' lives in WWII-era Czechoslovakia.
  • Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man, 3 vols. (Liberty Fund, 2007).  Reprints the 1788 edition of Kames' philosophical history; the most recent entry in the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series.  Ian Simpson Ross has a bibliography.
  • Josephine Bunkley, The Testimony of an Escaped Novice from the Sisterhood of St. Joseph, Emmettsburg, Maryland, the Mother-House of the Sisters of Charity in the United States (Harpers, 1855).  Another escaped nun narrative.
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