This Week's Acquisitions
- M. E. Francis, The Duenna of a Genius (Little, Brown, 1898). A woman tries to deal with her younger sister, a brilliant violinist, while putting her own life on hold. (eBay)
- Yoko Ogawa, Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, trans. Stephen Snyder (Picador, 2013). First English appearance of this 1998 collection of dark psychological tales. (Lift Bridge)
- Thomas Maltman, Little Wolves (Soho, 2012). Two very different members of a Minnesota farming community seek to understand crises touching their lives. (BOMC)
- Frederick William Faber, Hymns, 4th ed. (Burns and Oates, 1861). Important collection of hymns by Faber, a leading Catholic convert and Oratorian not always exactly on the best of terms with John Henry Newman. (eBay)
- Martha Nussbaum and Alison L. LaCroix, eds., Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel (Oxford, 2013). Interdisciplinary collection of essays on topics such as marriage, illegitimacy, testimony, etc. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Marvin R. O'Connell, Critics on Trial: An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis (CUA, 1994). A history of the international trials and travails of late-19th and early-20th c. attempts to bring Catholic teachings into line with new trends in Biblical scholarship and other fields. (Amazon [secondhand])