A book filled with keen judgment, shrewd common sense, and great
erudition worn gracefully. Posner's command of his
materials--literature, law, and the bodies of commentary and
scholarship attached to each--is truly impressive. Still more so is
his ability to make the issues vividly clear to the average reader.
-- Merle Rubin "Christian Science Monitor"
A wonderfully original and instructive study of what literature has
to teach about the law, the methods of legal argument, and the
interpretation of statutes and the Constitution...Posner's
adversaries are hopelessly outmatched in these arguments, but they
are only supporting characters in a larger and more interesting
drama--Mr. Posner's own exegesis of the relation of literature to
law propounded in a series of arresting, brilliantly interwoven
interpretations of dozens of literary works. -- Christopher DeMuth
"Wall Street Journal"
An outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually
distinguished...Not only are ÝPosner's¨ arguments readily grasped,
and driven home with an exhilarating forensic skill; in pursuing
them, he is also compelled to define his own positions more
sharply. -- John Gross "New York Times"
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