Man and Superman

Roebuck Ramsden denounces a book as fit for the hangman, though he has not read a line. Its author, John Tanner, is about to become guardian to Ann Whitefield—and a problem no respectable drawing room can keep at arm’s length.

In 1903 London, a morning visit brings grief, marriage hopes and a notorious red-bound book into Ramsden’s immaculate study. Tanner, its fiercely unconventional author, finds himself responsible for Ann, whose charm and determination may prove more formidable than any argument in his Revolutionist’s Handbook. He prizes freedom and distrusts convention; Ann has her own ideas about what his future should be. As Shaw turns the Don Juan legend into a comedy of courtship and clashing philosophies, one question hangs over Tanner: can a man reason his way out of being pursued?

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