The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Michal Govrin, The Name (Riverhead, 1999).  The daughter of Holocaust survivors slowly descends into insanity.  (eBay)
  • ---, Snapshots (Riverhead, 2007).  An attempt to recover the true personality of a dead Israeli woman.  (eBay)
  • Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men (Morrow, 2008).  Third volume in Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years series, following the exploits of the Cowardly Lion.  (eBay)
  • Michael Cox, The Glass of Time: A Novel (Norton, 2008).  Neo-Victorian + Gothic + mystery.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • The Girl's Week-Day Book (RTS, n.d.).  Popular advice manual, first published  in 1836.  (eBay)
  • Herbert F. Tucker, Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism (Harvard, 1988).  Important critical study of Tennyson's early career.  (Amazon [secondhand])