The Ancient Shore Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard PAPERBACK

Name: The Ancient Shore Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard PAPERBACK
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

The Ancient Shore Dispatches from NaplesAuthor(s): Shirley Hazzard, Francis Steegmuller, Francis Steegmuller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226322025, 978-0226322025\nSynopsis\nBorn 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. \""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. For the pair, both insatiable readers, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them in the present. 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 pa.