The Ancient Shore

The Ancient Shore
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 9780226322018
ISBN-13 : 0226322017
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Book Synopsis The Ancient Shore by : Shirley Hazzard

Download or read book The Ancient Shore written by Shirley Hazzard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 city still justified the loving words written about it by Goethe, Byron, and other literary travelers over the centuries." "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. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard's concern is primarily with the Naples of our own time - often violently unforgiving to innocent tourists, but able to transport the visitor who attends patiently to its rhythms and history."--BOOK JACKET.


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