This Week's Acquisitions
- A.L.O.E., Mahala, the Jewish Slave: A Tale of Early Christianity (RTS, n.d.). Evangelical novel of the early church, published in 1883. A.L.O.E. ("A Lady of England") was the pseudonym of missionary and prolific children's novelist Charlotte Maria Tucker. (eBay)
- Emily Sarah Holt, The White Lady of Hazelwood (John F. Shaw, n.d.). First edition of one of Holt's Lollard novels. (Gift from blog reader)
- Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (Vintage, 2008). Reprint of Yates' 1961 novel about a floundering couple living the mid-50s suburban lifestyle. (Lift Bridge)
- Jenny Davidson, Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (Columbia, 2008). Perfecting human nature in the age of Enlightenment. (Review copy for Valve book event.)
- Kenneth J. Stewart, Restoring the Reformation (Paternoster, 2007). British evangelicals evangelize abroad. (Amazon [secondhand])