This Week's Acquisitions

• Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada (Scribner, 1998).  Very, very revisionist take on Uncle Tom's Cabin, among other things.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Lionel Trilling, The Middle of the Journey (NYRB, 2002).  Reprint of Trilling's novel about the trials and travails of leftist intellectuals at midcentury. (eBay)
• Joshua Harmon, Quinnehtukqut (Starcherone, 2007).  Experimental historical novel, following a young girl's experiences in New Hampshire. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Ruth Brandon, Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres (Walker, 2008).  New historical study.  See also.  (HBC)
• Patricia Allderidge, Richard Dadd (St. Martin's, 1974).  Study of the Victorian fairy painter, whose best-known work is probably The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (see also Dadd's explanation).  (eBay)
• The Penny Pulpit: A Collection of Accurately-Reported Sermons by the Most Eminent Ministers of Various Denominations (1851-52).  Bound volume of Protestant sermons.  You can see a later volume here.  (eBay)
• Bulletins of the Society of Saint Vincent-de-Paul (1853-54).  Bound volume, the only one issued in English.  (eBay)