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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-

Contributor:

Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Italy--Naples.

Tourism.

Naples (Italy)--Civilization.

Naples (Italy).

Naples (Italy)--Description and travel.

Naples (Italy)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 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 Hazz

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Italian Hours

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

Pondering Italy

Photo Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Contains:

Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994. Incident at Naples.

Incident at Naples.

ISBN:

9780226322018

0226322017

9780226111308

022611130X

OCLC:

841911012