About this title: 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. "The Ancient Shore" collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a classic "New Yorker" essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, both insatiable readers, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them in the present. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard's concern is primarily with the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 2008-11-01
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2008
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
Description: As New. Uncorrected Proof. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.112 A young girl in the 1950's takes up a job with the United Nations. These are her best writings on Naples along with a New Yorker essay by her late husband Francis Steegmuller. clean tight unread copy. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
Description: New. Hazzard first moved to Naples, Italy, 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. "The Ancient Shore" collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226322018ISBN:0226322017
Description: New. 0226322017 Brand NEW unread book in lovely condition. Unread and not previously owned. Binding fine and pages clean and bright throughout. read more
"A short book but a travel book just the same. A quick read. A find for traveler like myself who has been to Italy-Naples-Capri region. Pliny the Younger.
This is also a love letter to her late husband Francis steegmuller 1906-1994 who co-wrote this travelogue. Where they lived in Italy as novelists, writers, editors,etc. His mugging in Naples is a very descriptive one. Finding doctors to treat him in Naples and NYCity. Looking back it is a bitter sweet memoir."
"Okay, first of all, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but this cover is outstanding and it is quite pleasant carrying it around just for that...that said, I think that there are parts of this book that are outstanding and other parts that are very dry and not so engaging. Each "chapter" is a different writing and they do not all flow together, per se, so some are more enjoyable than others. I think the one titled "the Incident in Naples" by Francis Steegmuller was absolutely outstanding - it beautifully caught and commented on the people and the place of Naples - the intimate details of family members bringing their own bedding and food to the hospitals and their description down to the feel and smell, were wonderful - and the final tie-in (I won't give anything away) really pulled it all together and made me feel that I had read a beautifully written piece that came full circle. So, if you don't like the book when you start it, skip to that last "chapter" and read it. If you like Italy or enjoy the differences of foreign cultures, you will surely enjoy it."
"Four stars because this is Shirley Hazzard. I don't know why this is a book: a few vignettes of Italian travel. I assume they have been published elsewhere previously but didn't research this. Of course, I would read absolutely anything by Hazzard. I found the piece by Steegmuller is almost comic. An Incident in Naples. It is carefully recorded but I had a tinge of feeling he is overly engrossed with his health. I would defend these two to the end. If you have not read her, don't read this now. Perhaps much later."
"I stumbled across Shirley Hazzard's "The Transit of Venus" more than twenty years ago and I have been reading her books ever since. Like Hazzard, I spent my early years in the Southern Hemisphere and longed to know the world across the seas. For me too, travel is a pilgrimage to the sacred places of my culture. Once, I could only read about them. Now, I can go there and pay homage. I too have strolled down the quays of Venice and made the lonely walk along the Seine. As Hazzard tells us, "Even the tourist who only glimpses, from a sealed bus, the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum, seeks his particle of the holy relic of the world's experience". Beautifully illustrated with black and white photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert List, "The Ancient Shore" includes a number of Hazzard's writings on Naples as well as a New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. And I am making plans to visit Rome, Naples, Pompeii and Capri."
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