The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Elizabeth Longford, Wellington: Pillar of State (Harper & Row, 1972). Second volume of Longford's biography of the "Iron Duke," dealing with his political career.

  • Jerome Beaty, "Middlemarch" from Notebook to Novel: A Study of George Eliot's Creative Method (Illinois, 1960). An analysis of Eliot's composition process.

  • D. A. Hamer, The Politics of Electoral Pressure: A Study in the History of Victorian Reform Agitations (Harvester, 1977). A study of the so-called "faddists" outside of Parliament and their attempts to exert some sort of political influence.

  • Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (Picador, 2004). Computer meets the Canon, with unforeseen results.

  • Avram Davidson, The Other Nineteenth Century (Tor, 2002). Collection of Davidson's short fiction devoted to 19th c. Anglo-American themes.
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