This Week's (Again Belated) Acquisitions

(No blog access yesterday.)

Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline Guizot, Moral Tales, trans. Mrs. Burke, new ed. (Routledge, 1856). Collection of short religious stories for children by Mme. Guizot (a.k.a. the first wife of the historian and politician Francois Guizot). (Greenwood Books)
Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace (Random House, 2001). Politics, invasion, romance, and teak in late-19th c. Burma. (Greenwood Books)
Léon Bloy, Le Désespéré (Mercure de France, 1946). Reprint of Bloy's 1887 novel about the miserable, albeit increasingly saintly, life of Catholic author Marchenoir. (Amazon [secondhand])
Diana Walsh Pasulka, Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture (Oxford, 2014). Various aspects of purgatory in Catholic thinking from the beginning to the post-Vatican II period. (Amazon [secondhand])
Oliver P. Rafferty, SJ, Violence, Politics, and Catholicism in Ireland (Four Courts, 2016). Collection of essays on topics such as the Famine, Cardinal Cullen, nationalism, WWI and WWII, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])