This Week's Acquisitions
- Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, The Lamp of the Sanctuary (Art and Book Company, 1899). Reprint of Wiseman's short novel about a man whose clandestine activities have, predictably, Bad Results. (eBay)
- ALOE, Claudia: A Tale (T. Nelson and Sons, 1869). A young woman with aspirations to save the poor finds that her reach has exceeded its grasp. (eBay)
- Charles Johnson, Oxherding Tale: A Novel (Grove, 1982). A slave ruefully narrates his experiences from conception forwards (with some metafictional reflections along the way). (Free book)
- Julie-Marie Strange, Death, Grief, and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914 (Cambridge, 2005). Studies the rituals and practices surrounding death among the working classes during the late Victorian period. (eBay [secondhand])