This Week's Acquisitions

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, Marmaduke Herbert; Or, the Fatal Error (Valancourt, 2009). Dude accidentally pitches sister-in-law into the abyss, realizes that moral issues may be involved. First published in 1847. For the Countess of Blessington, visit the Corvey Project. (Amazon)
E. L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley (Random House, 2009). Historical novel about the Collyer brothers. (BOMC)
Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood (Nan A. Talese, 2009). Dystopian sequel to Oryx and Crake. (BOMC)
Glen David Gold, Sunnyside (Knopf, 2009). Historical novel about Charlie Chaplin. (Borders)
John F. Quinn, Father Mathew's Crusade: Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America (Massachusetts, 2002). Although temperance was a well-known Protestant cause, Father Mathew, a Capuchin, was one of its most internationally famous advocates. (Amazon [secondhand])
David Clifford and Laurence Roussilion, eds., Outsiders Looking In: The Rossettis Then and Now (Anthem, 2004). Essay collection about the Rossetti clan and their role in contemporary artistic and literary circles. (eBay)
Ellis Hanson, Decadence and Catholicism (Harvard, 1998). The fin-de-siecle obsession with Catholic religion and aesthetics. (eBay)