This Week's Acquisitions

  • Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (Penguin, 1996).  It has recently occurred to me that I ought to remedy the Wharton gap in my collection.  As an undergrad, I read a fair bit of Wharton's fiction; unfortunately, most of my copies of her work perished, thanks to an onslaught of brown rats.  You don't want to know.  Really.