Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar is an anthology of classic readings on courtship and matrimony, from authors such as Homer, Plato,
Shakespeare, Austen, Tolstoy, and Miss Manners. The selections address basic questions about love that leads to
marriage, such as Why marry? How can I find and win the right marriage partner? Am I truly in love?
Amy A. Kass is a senior lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. She is the author of American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction. Leon R. Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor at the University of Chicago and an adjunct
scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. This volume was completed while he was a visiting scholar at AEI during the 1998-1999 academic year. Mr. Kass is the author of The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature and, with James Q. Wilson, of The Ethics of Human Cloning. Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar is one of a series of five anthologies produced under the auspices of the Institute of Religion and Public Life at the University of Notre Dame on "The Ethics of Everyday Life."