Just Another Day in Colldev...

I've been reading Ada, or Ardor: a Family Chronicle, picked up at a used book store, and decided to check our library's Nabokov holdings. No Ada or even Lolita! I continue to be surprised by the gaps in our collection. So I immediately put in an order for the Library of America Nabokov volumes. Since I had nothing better to do, I did a spot check of some other authors that came to mind, and uncovered the following omissions:

• C. S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy (amazing that we wouldn't have this central work of an author so popular here)
  
• V. S. Naipaul, Bend in the River
  
• Shusaku Endo, Silence (you would think a school with courses in missiology would have already had this famous historical fiction about the Jesuit martyrs of Japan)
  
• Georges Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest
  

Name That Author!

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