Hazzard, Shirley 1931-2016
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Shirley Hazzard
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Most widely held works by
Shirley Hazzard
The great fire by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
75
editions published
between
2003
and
2014
in
10
languages
and held by
2,935
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
)
65
editions published
between
1980
and
2009
in
3
languages
and held by
2,171
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
)
55
editions published
between
1960
and
2010
in
3
languages
and held by
1,165
libraries
worldwide
In war-torn Italy a young woman finds herself involved in the lives of a handsome Italian man, his lover, and a Scotsman. Through these relationships she learns about life and love
The great fire by Shirley Hazzard (
file
)
22
editions published
between
2003
and
2014
in
English
and held by
1,026
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 evening of the holiday by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
31
editions published
between
1960
and
2006
in
3
languages
and held by
874
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
)
22
editions published
in
1973
in
English
and held by
794
libraries
worldwide
Countenance of truth : the United Nations and the Waldheim case by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
11
editions published
between
1990
and
1991
in
English
and held by
753
libraries
worldwide
The ancient shore : dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
10
editions published
between
2008
and
2009
in
English
and held by
576
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
Cliffs of fall, and other stories by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
20
editions published
between
1963
and
2011
in
English
and held by
502
libraries
worldwide
From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointment Shirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems. In the title piece, a young widow is surprised and ashamed by her lack of grief for her husband. In "A Place in the Country," a young woman has a passionate, guilty affair with her cousin's husband. In "Harold," a gawky, lonely young man finds acceptance and respect through his poetry. Moving and evocative, these ten stories are written with subtlety, humor, and a keen understanding of the relationships between men and women
People in glass houses; portraits from organization life by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
4
editions published
in
1967
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
356
libraries
worldwide
People in glass houses by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
27
editions published
between
1967
and
2006
in
3
languages
and held by
331
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
We need silence to find out what we think : selected essays by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
10
editions published
between
2016
and
2017
in
English
and held by
270
libraries
worldwide
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings work. Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and the institution's manifold failings. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the HIroshima atomic bombing and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She speaks to the decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature and affirms the ongoing power of fiction to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite - or maybe because of - the world's disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this collection also encapsulates for readers the critical events defining postwar letters, thought, and politcs. -- from dust jacket
City of secrets : photographs of Naples by Jed Fielding (
Book
)
2
editions published
in
1997
in
English
and held by
87
libraries
worldwide
Cliffs of fall by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
13
editions published
between
1963
and
2007
in
English
and held by
81
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
Greene on Capri : a memoir by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
25
editions published
between
2000
and
2018
in
5
languages
and held by
64
libraries
worldwide
"For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene got to know 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 literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing island."--Jacket
Coming of age in Australia by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
3
editions published
between
1984
and
1985
in
English
and held by
62
libraries
worldwide
Die Maske der Wahrheit : zur Ohnmacht der Vereinten Nationen by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
1
edition published
in
1991
in
German
and held by
25
libraries
worldwide
The transit of venus by Shirley Hazzard (
Sound Recording
)
8
editions published
between
1983
and
2010
in
English
and held by
22
libraries
worldwide
Caroline and Grace Bell, two beautiful orphan sisters eager to begin their lives in a new land, journey to England from Australia. What happens to these young women - seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal - becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. The Transit of Venus is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life
Transit der Venus by Shirley Hazzard (
Book
)
2
editions published
in
2017
in
German and English
and held by
9
libraries
worldwide
Elena Vivante : paintings by Elena Vivante (
Book
)
1
edition published
in
1995
in
English
and held by
9
libraries
worldwide
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American fiction Asia Australia Australian fiction Australians British China--Hong Kong Civilization Employees England English fiction Essays Fielding, Jed, Friendship Great Britain Greene, Graham, Hazzard, Shirley, Homes Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life International agencies Interpersonal relations Italy Italy--Capri Island Italy--Naples Japan Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Novelists, English Novelists, English--Homes and haunts Organizational behavior Orphans Photography, Artistic Poets Portrait photography Psychological fiction Psychological fiction, Japanese Reconstruction (1939-1951) Romance fiction Short stories, Australian Sisters Social aspects Steegmuller, Francis, Travel United Nations United Nations.--Secretary-General United States Waldheim, Kurt World War (1939-1945) Young women
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Hazzard Shirley Hazzard, Shirley, 1931- Shirley Hazzard Amerikaans romanschrijfster Shirley Hazzard australialais-yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija Shirley Hazzard ausztrál-amerikai író Shirley Hazzard romancière australienne Shirley Hazzard scrittrice australiana Steegmuller, Shirley 1931- Steegmuller, Shirley, 1931-2016 הזרד, שירלי 1931- शर्ली हाज़र्ड シャーリー・ハザード
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