The Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time, Alan Tate. Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemenâs agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to live a life which was gentle and comfortable because it was formal. Into this life George Posey came dashing, as Henry Steele Commager observed, âto defy Major Buchan, marry Susan, betray Charles and Semmes, dazzle young Lacy, challenge and destroy the old order of things.â âGreat novel of the broken South.ââGeorge Steiner in The New Yorker âA psychological horror storyâ¦concerned with life rather than death, with significance rather than with futility.ââHenry Steele Commager âThe story displays so much imagination and such a profound reflection upon life that it cannot be neglected by anyone interested in contemporary literature.ââEdwin Muir âA masterpiece of formal beautyâ¦deserves to be recognized as one of the most outstanding novels of our time.ââJanet Adam-Smith in The New Statesmen âIt is one of the most remarkable novels of our time...[It] is in fact the novel GONE WITH THE WIND ought to have been.ââArthur Mizener
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