Tanner, Tony

Overview

Works:	126 works in 546 publications in 10 languages and 20,518 library holdings
Roles:	Compiler, Editor, Author of introduction
Classifications:	ps2124, 813.4

Publication Timeline

1950 |

|2020

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Publications about Tony Tanner

Publications by Tony Tanner

Most widely held works about Tony Tanner

Dance briefs 2 by Peff Modelski ( Book )
Goings on by Deborah Quilter ( Book )
Saluting the theatrical Diaghilev by Hilary Ostlere ( Book )

Most widely held works by Tony Tanner

Jane Austen by Tony Tanner ( Book )
27 editions published between 1986 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,590 libraries worldwide
Tanner addresses the issues that have continually occupied Austen's most perceptive critics in this reissued edition that also features a new Preface by leading Romantic scholar Marilyn Gaull, who examines Tanner's background and places the original work in context.

City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970 by Tony Tanner ( Book )
29 editions published between 1971 and 1980 in 3 languages and held by 1,564 libraries worldwide
Offers a penetrating critical commentary on the works of twenty-five contemporary novelists including Barth, Mailer, Bellow, Heller, Updike and Malamud.

Henry James : the writer and his work by Tony Tanner ( Book )
14 editions published between 1985 and 1989 in English and Spanish and held by 1,343 libraries worldwide

Moby Dick by Herman Melville ( Book )
20 editions published between 1988 and 2008 in English and held by 1,255 libraries worldwide
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale, who defied capture.

The reign of wonder, naivety and reality in American literature by Tony Tanner ( Book )
13 editions published between 1965 and 1977 in English and held by 1,214 libraries worldwide

Adultery in the novel : contract and transgression by Tony Tanner ( Book )
11 editions published between 1979 and 2000 in English and held by 1,211 libraries worldwide

Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner ( Book )
10 editions published between 1982 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 1,051 libraries worldwide

Scenes of nature, signs of men by Tony Tanner ( Book )
10 editions published between 1987 and 1989 in English and held by 797 libraries worldwide

The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo by Tony Tanner ( Book )
7 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 722 libraries worldwide

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen ( Book )
28 editions published between 1972 and 2009 in English and held by 633 libraries worldwide
The romantic clash of two opinionated young people in the class-conscious 18th century.

Prefaces to Shakespeare by Tony Tanner ( Book )
4 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 623 libraries worldwide
In the final ten years of his life, Tony Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on, writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.--[book jacket]

Saul Bellow by Tony Tanner ( Book )
17 editions published between 1965 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 593 libraries worldwide

Venice desired by Tony Tanner ( Book )
12 editions published in 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 554 libraries worldwide

Conrad: Lord Jim by Tony Tanner ( Book )
25 editions published between 1963 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 546 libraries worldwide

Henry James by Tony Tanner ( Book )
20 editions published between 1968 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 528 libraries worldwide

The Oxford book of sea stories ( Book )
12 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in English and held by 514 libraries worldwide
'And then went down to the ship.' Thus, with a nod to Homer, Ezra Pound began his own epic odyssey through world literature and the modern world. There is no literature without a departure, a setting forth; and very often that has meant leaving the land for the more uncertain world of the sea.

Henry James and the art of nonfiction by Tony Tanner ( Book )
4 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 421 libraries worldwide

Comedies by William Shakespeare ( Book )
10 editions published between 1995 and 2000 in English and held by 340 libraries worldwide

City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970 by Tony Tanner ( Book )
1 edition published in 1971 in English and held by 304 libraries worldwide
Malamud, Bernard; Mailer, Norman; Kesey, Ken; Bellows, Saul; Roth, Philip; Conroy, Frank; Percy, Walker; Plath, Sylvia; Sontag, Susan; Gass, William.

Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen ( Book )
29 editions published between 1967 and 2003 in English and held by 283 libraries worldwide
"Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her behaviour leaves her open to gossip. Meanwhile, Elinor is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment."--P. [4] of cover.