Hazzard, Shirley 1931-

The great fire by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
45 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,038 libraries worldwide
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, a brave and brilliant soldier find that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself

The transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
37 editions published between 1980 and 2009 in English and held by 2,188 libraries worldwide
Follows the story of two beautiful orphaned sisters newly arrived in England from Australia

The bay of noon; a novel by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
39 editions published between 1960 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,244 libraries worldwide
Het verblijf in Napels helpt een jong meisje heen over dood tij in haar leven

The great fire by Shirley Hazzard( Sound Recording )
18 editions published between 2004 and 2011 in English and held by 1,210 libraries worldwide
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn to dream again. Some will fulfil their destinies, others will falter. One brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, 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 selfreliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity

The evening of the holiday by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
24 editions published between 1965 and 2006 in English and held by 965 libraries worldwide
During a summer holiday in Italy, a reluctant English woman experiences a love affair with a married man

Defeat of an ideal; a study of the self-destruction of the United Nations by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
17 editions published in 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 830 libraries worldwide

Countenance of truth : the United Nations and the Waldheim case by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
7 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 805 libraries worldwide

People in glass houses; portraits from organization life by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
25 editions published between 1967 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 756 libraries worldwide
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

Cliffs of fall, and other stories by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
28 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 653 libraries worldwide
Whether set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, these short stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments in crisis. In the title piece, a young widow is surprised and ashamed by her lack of grief for her husband. In 'Harold", a gawky, lonely young man finds acceptance and respect through his poetry

The ancient shore : dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
8 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 634 libraries worldwide
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