The Bay Of Noon

Author : Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller
Publisher : Picador
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466800489

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The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller Pdf

Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and thus changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda's lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374706357

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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Pdf

The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, Aldred Leith, a brave and brilliant soldier, finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. Helen Driscoll, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity.

Author : Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781429979252

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Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller Pdf

The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man and a legendary island. 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 season, year after year; and where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story. For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, and Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard and her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In Greene on Capri, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work and talk, and the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.

Author : Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782832089

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Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler Pdf

'Words were invented so lies could be told' Mary Ellen Pleasant San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions, home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination, and even the behaviour, of some residents. Lizzie Hayes, a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies' Relief and Protection Society Home, or the Brown Ark. She doesn't know it, but she's waiting for the spark that will liberate her from convention. When the wealthy and well-connected but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. It is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her mysterious past and rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie's rebellious nature. Based on real historical figures, San Francisco in the gilded age is brought vibrantly to life in Karen Joy Fowler's entertaining, evocative and sinister novel.

Author : Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466801066

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People in Glass Houses by Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller Pdf

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 souls remain their own.

Author : Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller
Publisher : Picador
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466801059

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The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard,Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller,The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller Pdf

In the words of Time magazine, "A near perfect novel...a small masterpiece" by the author of The Great Fire Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in a summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. It takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration--a festival. Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian who is separated from his wife and family. In telling the story of their love affair, Shirley Hazzard punctures the placid surface of polite Italian society to reveal the intense yearnings and surprising responses in sophisticated people caught up in emotions they do not always understand.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143135654

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The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard Pdf

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374720483

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Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard Pdf

Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek. Hazzard once said, "The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature." Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising, and deeply felt.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Adultery
ISBN : UOM:39015032993860

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The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard Pdf

During a summer holiday in Italy, a reluctant English woman experiences a love affair with a married man.

Author : ARTHUR KOESTLER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DARKNESS AT NOON by ARTHUR KOESTLER Pdf

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1860492223

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The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard Pdf

Jenny arrives in the ancient and fantastic city of Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama awaits her. Introduced to a Neapolitan woman, in an idle moment she follows up the invitation and unwittingly steps through the looking glass.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1406948588

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“The” Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard Pdf

Author : Ida Lee
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041984411

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The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson by Ida Lee Pdf

"The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson" is a historical work written by Ida Lee. Published in 1915, the book focuses on the logbooks of the Lady Nelson, a ship known for its exploration along the coasts of Australia in the early 19th century. Ida Lee, an Australian author and maritime historian, edited and annotated the logbooks of the Lady Nelson, providing insights into the ship's voyages, discoveries, and interactions with Indigenous peoples. The Lady Nelson played a significant role in the exploration of Australian waters during the period. For readers interested in maritime history, early Australian exploration, and primary source documents from the age of sail, Ida Lee's "The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson" offers a valuable resource, shedding light on the challenges and discoveries made by this historic ship.

Author : James Cook,Georg Forster,James King
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1607 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547788379

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The Voyages of Captain Cook Around the World (All 7 Volumes) by James Cook,Georg Forster,James King Pdf

This edition contains the descriptions of the three voyages of Captain Cook, which resulted in the complete round-the-world expedition. Captain and his team were the first Europeans to meet the indigenous people of Australia and Oceania. Captain Cook took a great interest in the locals' style of life and customs. Thus, the book doesn't just present an account of one of the most daring sea expeditions in history but also impressions of the first encounter of seamen with the people of unknown worlds and places.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0147783542

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Bay of Noon & Cp1153 by Shirley Hazzard Pdf