The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(Hey, books  for $1.)

  • Roberto Bolano, 2666: A Novel, trans. Natasha Wimmer (FSG, 2008).  Bolano's last finished (maybe) novel, involving a wild goose chase, academics, and many narrative games.  (BOMC)
  • Jem Poster, Rifling Paradise (Sceptre, 2006).  Near the  end of the nineteenth century, somebody treks to Australia.  (eBay)
  • ---, Courting Shadows (Overlook, 20008).  Victorian Church architect has issues.  (eBay)
  • Thomas Wharton, Salamander (M&S, 2001).  An odd group of folks go off in search of a very special book.  (eBay)
  • George Bowering, Burning Water (Penguin, 1994).  Reprint of Bowering's prize-winning novel about Capt. Vancouver's travels in Canada.  (eBay)
  • Arthur Phillips, The Egyptologist (Random House, 2005).  In search of lost tombs.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Samuel F. Pickering, The Moral Tradition in English Fiction, 1785-1850 (Dartmouth/New England, 1976).  Study of the influence of various religious reform movements on the novel.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Margaret  Homans, Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876 (Chicago, 1999).  The Queen in literature, photography, pop culture, etc.  (eBay)
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