This Week's Acquisitions

(Hey, it's our library's annual book sale.  Books for a quarter, anyone?)

• Charles J. Kickham, Knocknagow; Or, the Homes of Tipperary (James Duffy, n.d.).  One of the biggest bestsellers in Irish fiction during the nineteenth century, here reprinted in its 22nd edition.  More on Kickham here.  (eBay)
• Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger (Andre Deutsch, 1987).  A historian reminisces on her deathbed.  (Library sale)
• A. N. Wilson, Daughters of Albion (Penguin, 1993).  The Lampitts deal with the 60s.  (Library sale)
• Henry Hitch and Baxter Hathaway, eds., Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age (Benjamin Blom, 1965).  Anthology of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century critical essays, prefaces, satires, etc. on drama.  (Library sale)
• Seamus Deane, Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (Oxford, 1999).   Emergence of modern Irish literature as Irish literature.  (eBay)
• James Whisenant, A Fragile Unity: Anti-Ritualism and the Division of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Nineeenth Century (Paternoster, 2000).  Rise, fall, and collapse of the anti-Ritualist movement.  (Amazon)