This Week's Acquisitions
- George E. Sargent, Richard Hunne: A Story of Old London (RTS, [1871]). Historical novel, set in the early sixteenth century, about Lollard sympathizer Richard Hunne and his mysterious end. For an RTS publication, this copy has an unusually upscale binding (gold-stamped leather with raised bands and marbled endpapers); it was given as a prize book by Ridley College (then Bishop Ridley College) in 1896. (eBay)
- Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News? (Little, Brown, 2008). Third of Atkinson's novels about PI Jackson Brodie. (BOMC)
- Benjamin Markovits, A Quiet Adjustment (Norton, 2008). Second part of Markovits' trilogy about Lord Byron, this time focusing on Annabella (Anne Isabella) Milbanke. (BOMC)
- Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies (FSG, 2008). The Ibis travels to Mauritania in 1838; first part of an intended trilogy. (What is it with trilogies this week?) (BOMC)
- Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (Verso, 1999). Literary history, cartographically speaking. (Amazon)
- Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, trans. M. B. DeVoise (Harvard, 2007). The constitution of modern "world literature." (Amazon)
- Judith Wilt, Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward (Virginia, 2005). Study of the novelist usually billed as Mrs. Humphry Ward. (eBay)
- John Miller, Popery and Politics in England 1660-1688 (Cambridge, 2008). Oh dear, James II. (If you haven't noticed, Cambridge has been reprinting books in relatively affordable paperbacks.) (Amazon [secondhand])