This Week's Acquisitions
- Mary Martha Sherwood, The Children of The Hartz Mountains; or the Little Beggars (American Sunday-School Union, n.d.). A tract. In Germany, the poor children of an upstanding peasant family deal with the poor children of a non-upstanding family of beggars. (eBay)
- Dinah Mulock Craik, Young Mrs. Jardine (Harper & Brothers, n.d.). A young man's choice of wife leads to dissension within his family. US reprint of one of Craik's last works, originally published in 1879. (eBay)
- John Bamford, Elias Power, of Ease-in-Zion (Phillips & Hunt, 1885). Methodist novel about the exemplary Elias Power and his influence within the community surrounding the Ease-in-Zion congregation. Features characters with names like "Burnish Brighter" and "Jane Joyful." Originally published in the UK in 1884. (eBay)
- Ross Gilfillan, The Edge of the Crowd: A Novel of Live, Science and Photography (Fourth Estate, 2001). Shenanigans going on and about the Great Exhibition of 1851, including innovations in photography and the pursuit of women. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jenny Diski, Monkey's Uncle (Phoenix, 1994). A woman hospitalized after a breakdown finds herself consorting with Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and sundry other somewhat out-of-time individuals. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees (Anchor, 2014). In the mid-twentieth century, an expedition to Micronesia produces a scientific breakthrough but endangers the indigenous population. (Lift Bridge)