This Week's Acquisitions
- Eleanor Sleath, The Nocturnal Minstel; Or, the Spirit of the Wood (Ayer, 1971). A volume in Ayer's big reprint series of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Gothic. Overview here; a biographical essay about the little-known author here. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies (Holt, 2012). Second volume in Mantel's planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, featuring things going rather badly for Anne Boleyn. (Amazon)
- Johannes V. Jensen, The Fall of the King, trans. Alan G. Bower (Minnesota, 2012). New translation of Jensen's famous historical novel about a young man coming into the orbit of King Christian II; originally published 1900-01. Jensen won the Nobel Prize in 1944. (Amazon)
- The Old Brown Coat and Its Owners (RTS, 1830[?]). Teensy-tiny (it's about four inches tall) Christian it-narrative about, yes, a coat. (eBay)
- William Heyen, Diana, Charles, and the Queen (BOA, 1998). Cycle of approximately three hundred short poems (two quatrains apiece, various rhyme schemes) about exactly what it says in the title, by one of my former colleagues. (Free)
- W. R. Ward, Early Evangelicalism: A Global History, 1660-1789 (Cambridge, 2006). An international history of efforts leading up to the explosion of evangelicalism as a modern force in the late eighteenth century. (Amazon [secondhand])