UID:
almafu_9959238159502883
Format:
1 online resource (140 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-226-32201-7
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0-226-11130-X
Content:
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 Hazz
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Italian Hours --
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Pilgrimage --
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A Scene of Ancient Fame --
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius --
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City of Secrets and Surprises --
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Naples Redux: An Ancient City Arrayed for the G-7 --
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The Incident at Naples --
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Pondering Italy --
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-32202-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-54553-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226111308
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