The ancient shore : dispatches from Naples / Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller.

By:

Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016

Contributor(s):

Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (129 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226111308
022611130X

Contained works:

Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994. Incident at Naples

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ancient shore.DDC classification:

945/.731 22

LOC classification:

DG844.2 .H39 2008

Online resources:

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Contents:

Pilgrimage -- A scene of ancient fame -- In the shadow of Vesuvius -- City of secrets and surprises -- Naples redux : an ancient city arrayed for the G-7 -- The incident at Naples -- Coda: Pondering Italy.

Summary: 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. 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 others over the centuries. Here are the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them: "The ghosts of this region are too many, and too vital, to sadden us," Hazzard writes. "Rather, they create a company, ironic and benign, to which we ourselves may ultimately hope to belong."--Publisher description.

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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. 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 others over the centuries. Here are the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them: "The ghosts of this region are too many, and too vital, to sadden us," Hazzard writes. "Rather, they create a company, ironic and benign, to which we ourselves may ultimately hope to belong."--Publisher description.