This Week's Acquisitions

(Yay for gift certificates and coupons!)

• Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Knopf, 2010).  Carey reworks Alexis de Tocqueville's journey through the USA.  (Lift Bridge)
• J. S. Le Fanu, The Cock and Anchor: Being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City, ed. James F. Wurtz (Valancourt, 2010).  Le Fanu's first novel, set in eighteenth-century Dublin; later revised (and, setting-wise, relocated) as Checkmate.  (Amazon)
• Eliza Lynn Linton, Realities, ed. Deborah Meems (Valancourt, 2010).  Young actress makes her way in nineteenth-century London, attracting men (and opprobrium) along the way.  (Amazon)
• William Kuhn, The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (Pocket, 2007).  Biographical sketch with some emphasis on Disraeli's self-fashioning.  (eBay)
• R. J. Morris, Men, Women, and Property in England, 1780-1870: A Social and Economic History of Family Strategies amongst the Leeds Middle Classes (Cambridge, 2005).  How the middle classes lived, moved, and had their being.  (Amazon [secondhand])