Overview :Devoted fans and scholars of Jane Austen--as well as skeptics--will rejoice at Tony Tanner's superb book on the incomparable novelist. Disti... Read More
Overview :When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wro... Read More
Overview :If there is one city that might be said to embody both reason and desire, it would surely be Venice: a thousand-year triumph of rational leg... Read More
Overview :Malevolent, mysterious, vast, the ocean has always sparked our fascination and sense of adventure, giving rise to a remarkable vein of narra... Read More
Overview :Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plo... Read More
Overview :The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. With a foreword by Edward Sai... Read More