This Week's (Somewhat Belated) Acquisitions
- T. A. Trollope, Beppo the Conscript (F. M. Lupton, n.d.). Novel set in the Romagna during the Risorgimento era, by one of the other Trollopes. Originally published in 1864. (AbeBooks)
- William Bernard MacCabe, Bertha, or the Pope and the Emperor: An Historic Tale (Patrick Donahoe, 1856). US reprint of a Catholic historical novel, originally published in Dublin. Takes place during the rise of Pope Gregory VII. (AbeBooks)
- Thomas Potter, The Two Victories: A Catholic Tale (Sadlier, 1890). Originally published in 1860. First novel by Potter, a rather short-lived Catholic convert who taught at All Hallows College. (AbeBooks)
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, After the Plague: And Other Stories (Viking, 2001). Short stories on topics ranging from romance (bad) to post-apocalyptics (bad) &c. (Free book table)
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (Mariner, 2009). O'Brien's linked collection of Vietnam war stories, first published in 1990. (Free book table)
- Hardy S. George, ed., Artist as Narrator: Nineteenth-Century Narrative Art in England and France (Oklahoma City Art Museum, 2005). Collection of essays on narrative painting (Augustus Egg, etc.). (Amazon [secondhand])
- Debra N. Mancoff, The World of King Arthur: The Legend through Victorian Eyes (Abrams, 1995). King Arthur in Victorian literature and visual arts. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jeremy Cohen, Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (University of California, 1999). History of the notion that Jews serve as a "witness" to the truth of revelation. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Edward Kessler and Neil Wenborn, eds., A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, 2008). What the title says--a reference work devoted to interactions in theology, culture, etc. (eBay)