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William G. Holzberger is Professor of English Emeritus at Bucknell University. Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., is Head of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University. George Santayana (1863-1952) was a philosopher, poet, critic, and novelist. The MIT Press has published The Letters of George Santayana in eight books and the five books of The Life of Reason. Irving Singer was Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He was the author of the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life, Philosophy of Love- A Partial Summing-Up, Mozart and Beethoven- The Concept of Love in Their Operas, all published by the MIT Press, and many other books.
This is news - a Santayana that classifies as fiction - and fiction with a good chance for a sale almost, not quite, in the popular class. With the record of the Thomas Wolfe success last Spring, the bookseller has something to shoot at, as it is distinctly of that genre. Try for the intellectual snob appeal market - it's right down that lane. A philosophical, psychological, biographical novel (yes, those rhythms are intentional) - the story of a last leaf on the tree of Puritanism, of a youth who died in the war, but who lived long enough to prove once more that the mold of Puritanism has not been broken. The tie-up with The Education of Henry Adams, though fairly obvious, is completely justified. An important book, in the American tradition. (Kirkus Reviews)
