The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(Obviously, if I was going to NYC, I had to visit the Strand.)

  • Religious Tracts Dispersed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, vol. II (Rivington, 1827). Fifteen tracts on the catechism, confirmation, and baptism. One of a ten-volume set.

  • John Henry Newman, Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations, ed. James Tolhurst (Notre Dame, 2002). Sermons on Catholic doctrine, first delivered in Birmingham in 1849. Part of Notre Dame's new edition of Newman's complete works.

  • Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers (Penguin, 1986). American history meets Carter's unique brand of fantasy. I confess that I've read very little of Carter's work, aside from her collection The Bloody Chamber--must get around to remedying the situation.

  • Charles Palliser, The Quincunx (Ballantine, 1989). Massive neo-Victorian conspiracy novel. This is a replacement copy, actually; haven't the slightest clue what I did with the first one. You'd think it would be hard to misplace a novel this hefty.

  • Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (Borzoi, 2004). A daughter discovers the truth about her father's work as a prison guard in Haiti.

  • Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (Talese, 2003). The last man (?) reminisces in a post-apocalyptic world.

  • Emile Zola, The Conquest of Passans (Sutton, 1994). Rougon-Macquart #4. There's a helpful guide (in French) to the characters here (or try the directory available at Gutenberg). See also Les Rougon Macquart.

  • ---, Doctor Pascal (Sutton, 1989). Rougon-Macquart #20.

  • Linda Hunt Beckman, Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters (Ohio, 2000). Biography plus letters of the late-Victorian Anglo-Jewish poet and novelist, now best known for her (in)famous response to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Reuben Sachs.

  • Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne: A Life (Oxford, 2001). Newest biography of the author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Speaking of which, check out the Tristram Shandy Web.

  • E. A. Smith, George IV (Yale, 1999). Part of the "Yale English Monarchs" series.

  • Joanna Shattock and Michael Wolff, The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings (Leicester/Toronto, 1982). Collection of essays on authorship, money matters, editorial techniques, and so forth.

  • Alan Acheson, A History of the Church of Ireland, 1691-2001, rev. ed. (Columba, 2002). A general survey.
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