This Week's Acquisitions
- Madison Smartt Bell, Devil's Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest (Pantheon, 2009). Historical novel about the Confederate officer. (BOMC)
- Michael Mewshaw, Lying with the Dead (Other, 2009). Extremely dysfunctional family deals with the legacy of a murder. (Lift Bridge)
- Alfred Marshall, The Comedy of English Protestantism. In Three Acts (Benziger, 1896). Roman Catholic satire of late-Victorian Protestantism, especially evangelicalism (the satire is set at Exeter Hall, favorite meeting place for a wide range of evangelical groups and lecturers). A sequel of sorts to Marshall's The Comedy of Convocation in the English Church. (Samovar)