This Week's Acquisitions

• David Lodge, Nice Work (Penguin, 1989).  Victorianist meets businessman; satirical hijinks ensue.
• Rick Moody, Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas (Little, Brown, 2007).  Includes a post-apocalyptic tale.
• Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora (Harvest, 2001).  Expeditions to the South Pole, dangers of.
• Ann Harries, Manly Pursuits (Bloomsbury, 2000). Cecil Rhodes + ornithologist + South Africa + impending Boer War.
• Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters (Dalkey Archive, 2000).  Romance and the condition of Europe (intellectual and otherwise) post-WWI.
• Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (Notre Dame, 1993).  2nd ed. of this important study of Joachim of Fiore, who strongly influenced later Christian theories of history.
• J. C. S. Mason, The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800 (Royal Historical Society, 2001).  Role of the Moravians in overseas missionary work and the influence of their example in England. 

Comments

[Kaleberg]

I noticed Nice Work on your list. Have you read much David Lodge? Nice Work was fun, but it wasn't his best. My favorite will remain Small World, a retelling of the Arthurian legend.