Acquisitions, July 18-24

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part I (tr. Randall Jarrell) (Penguin pb) (Half Price Books, clearance)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (Oxford pb) -- I'm been meaning for quite a while to take a look at the British verse-novels of the 19th century, so I was delighted to find this volume at the Goodwill in Green Bay.
• Henry James, Washington Square (Oxford pb) (Goodwill/Green Bay)
• Leon Wolff, In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign (Time Reading Program pb) -- From 1961 to 1966, Time Inc. produced a wonderful series of trade-sized paperbacks with sturdy (and well-designed) covers as the "Time Reading Program." The titles, chosen for their high literary quality by Time magazine's book reviewer Max Gissen, spanned a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, with many "rediscoveries" and less-than-widely-known gems figuring in the mix. I think the series is highly collectible; the volumes are often seen in excellent condition in used bookstores, and are usually very reasonably priced. (Goodwill/Green Bay)
  
• Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (Time Reading Program pb) -- Another TRP history volume, this one about the Crimean War. (Goodwill/Green Bay)
• Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (Oxford pb) -- Lennox's 1752 novel was inspired by Don Quixote, and in turn inspired Tabitha Tenney's 1801 novel Female Quixotism, which I read and loved in an early American literature course at Yale.
• Michael Powell, A Canterbury Tale (Criterion DVD) -- A going-to-Nevada gift from my friends Eric Johnson, Eric Levy, and Tony Dugandzic, along with...
• Alfred Hitchcock, Waltzes from Vienna -- A dub of the Region 2 DVD of Hitchcock's rarest sound era film.