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1	The Great Fire more books like this by Shirley Hazzard This is Hazzard's first novel since "The Transit of Venus," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Today Show Book Club #16 see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Transit of Venus more books like this by Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women -- seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal -- becomes as moving and wonderful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.06! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Bay of Noon more books like this by Shirley Hazzard The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one day she idly follows it up. This is her leap ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Greene on Capri: A Memoir more books like this by Shirley Hazzard 'When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well - on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.77! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples more books like this by Shirley Hazzard, Francis Steegmuller Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. Battered by World War II, Naples would remain for decades one of the most violent and impoverished places in Italy, but in its passion, vivacity, and beauty, the ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $13.08! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Evening of the Holiday more books like this by Shirley Hazzard A love story involving an American tourist in Italy. Sophie, a middle-aged woman on a holiday, meets and is pursued by Tancredi, a married Italian architect. She resists him at first but eventually gives in without much enthusiasm. Slowly and with remarkably little passion, the couple falls in love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	People in glass houses more books like this by Shirley Hazzard This novel consists of a set of interlinking episodes about life in "the organization" an international enterprise dedicated to the cause of humanity. Shirley Hazzard also wrote "Transit of Venus" and "Defeat of an Ideal", a study of the United Nations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Countenance of Truth more books like this by Shirley Hazzard A polemical history of the United Nations. Hazzard describes the founding of the organization and gives a careful account of its day-to-day workings. Originally written for the New Yorker at the time of the Waldheim crisis, Hazzard examines Waldheim's career in detail and concludes that his presence at the head of the U.N. amounts to a betrayal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories more books like this by Shirley Hazzard From the author of "The Great Fire," a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointmentShirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems.In the title piece, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Cliffs of Fall more books like this by Shirley Hazzard From the author of "The Great Fire," a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointmentShirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems.In the title piece, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Countenance of truth : the United Nations and the Waldheim case more books like this by Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard has written an expose of the corruption of the United Nations. She argues that Kurt Waldheim campaigned to become the U.N.'s Secretary General, confident that details of his past as a Nazi officer would be hushed up. Waldheim, during his UN years, emerges as a tool, both of the Soviets, for whom he carried out unbelievable favours, ... see all copies from $2.00! signed copies \| first editions
12	City of Secrets more books like this by Jed Fielding, Nan Richardson, Shirley Hazzard These extraordinary images, the product of twenty years spent photographing in the streets of Naples, constitute a major body of work by an important American photographer. Fielding's unforgettable portraits are illuminated by an insightful essay contributed by photographer Nan Richardsonl. see all copies from $14.44! new only from $17.50! \| first editions
13	Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations more books like this by Shirley Hazzard see all copies from $17.39! signed copies \| first editions
14	People in glass houses; portraits from organization life. by Shirley Hazzard see all copies from $8.00! first editions
15	Doctor Who #122: The Massacre more books like this by Shirley Hazzard The life stories of two sisters who leave Australia for England and America as young women. Both have love affairs, marriages, and and families in their new worlds, and it is the history of their domestic and love lives that makes up the greater part of this tale. Considered Hazzard's finest novel, TRANSIT OF VENUS was a winner of the National ... see all copies from $2.00!
16	El Gran Incendio by Shirley Hazzard see all copies from $19.49!
17	People in Glass House more books like this by Shirley Hazzard Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity prevails in the courage, love, and laughter of singular spirits--of men and women for whom life is an adventure no Organization can quell, and whose ... see all copies from $8.47!
18	Cliffs of Fall: 2and Other Stories by Shirley Hazzard Whether she is describing a bettersweet love affair between a young girl and a married man, or the struggles of a young widow in search of a new life, Shirley Hazzard creates moving, evocative stories. These are written with subtlety, humor, and a keen understanding of the relations between men and women. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	The bay of noon; a novel. more books like this by Shirley Hazzard see all copies from $5.80! first editions
20	Countenance of Truth more books like this by Shirley Hazzard A polemical history of the United Nations. Hazzard describes the founding of the organization and gives a careful account of its day-to-day workings. Originally written for the New Yorker at the time of the Waldheim crisis, Hazzard examines Waldheim's career in detail and concludes that his presence at the head of the U.N. amounts to a betrayal ... see all copies from $7.50!
21	Winter's Tales 21 by Muriel Spark A. D. Maclean (Ed. ) Shirley Hazzard, Rebecca West, Others see all copies from $10.00! first editions

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