This Week's Acquisitions
- Nancy Huston, Dolce Agonia (Vintage, 2002). Academics gather at Thanksgiving. (eBay)
- Richard Flanagan, Wanting (Atlantic Monthly, 2009). Lady Jane Franklin asks Charles Dickens to step in after members of Sir John Franklin's expedition are accused of cannibalism...and wait, didn't we just do this? (Amazon [secondhand])
- Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens: A Novel (Random House, 2009). Mystery surrounding The Mystery of Edwin Drood...and wait, didn't we just do this? (eBay)
- Michael A. G. Haykin and Kenneth Stewart, eds., The Advent of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities (B&H Academic, 2008). Essay collection reassessing David Bebbington's standard history of British evangelicalism, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain (1989). (Amazon [secondhand])