This Week's Acquisitions
- Jon Clinch, Finn: A Novel (Random House, 2007). Revision of Huckleberry Finn.
- Howard Frank Mosher, A Stranger in the Kingdom: A Novel (Mariner Books, 2002). An African-American preacher comes to a 1950s Vermont town, only to find himself accused of murder.
- Michael Chandler, The Life and Work of John Mason Neale: 1818-1866 (Gracewing, 1995). Biography of the famed Anglo-Catholic priest and novelist. There are numerous e-texts at Project Canterbury.
- Anthony Armstrong, Church of England, the Methodists and Society, 1700-1850 (Hodder Arnold, 1973). Important study of the interaction/competition between Methodism and the Established Church.