The Ancient Shore Book Reviews
The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller Book 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 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 patiently to its rhythms and history. A town shadowed by both the symbol and the reality of Vesuvius can never fail to acknowledge the essential precariousness of life—nor, as the lover of Naples discovers, the human compassion, generosity, and friendship that are necessary to sustain it.
Beautifully illustrated by photographs from such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert List, The Ancient Shore is a lyrical letter to a lifelong love: honest and clear-eyed, yet still fervently, endlessly enchanted.
“Much larger than all its parts, this book does full justice to a place, and a time, where ‘nothing was pristine, except the light.’”—Bookforum
“Deep in the spell of Italy, Hazzard parses the difference between visiting and living and working in a foreign country. She writes with enormous eloquence and passion of the beauty of getting lost in a place.”—Susan Slater Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
“The two voices join in exquisite harmony. . . . A lovely book.”—Booklist, starred review
Book Name | The Ancient Shore |
Genre | Travel & Adventure |
Author | Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller |
Published | 31 July 2009, Friday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 4.52 MB |
The Ancient Shore (Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller) Book Reviews 2024
We transfer money over €4 billion every month. We enable individual and business accounts to save 4 million Euros on bank transfer fees. Want to send free money abroad or transfer money abroad for free? Free international money transfer!
Did you know that you can earn 25 USD from our site just by registering? Get $25 for free by joining Payoneer!
Download Link | Book Format |
the-ancient-shore-ebook.pdf | |
the-ancient-shore-ebook.epub | EPUB |
the-ancient-shore-ebook.kindle | KINDLE |
The Ancient Shore E-book (PDF, PUB, KINDLE) Download
The Ancient Shore ebook the-ancient-shore (4.52 MB) download new links will be update!
The Ancient Shore Similar Books
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
Seven Great Wonders of The World | 4/5 | 774 | Free |
Born to Run | 4.5/5 | 2,996 | $13.99 |
An Innocent Abroad | 4/5 | 195 | $10.99 |
Dragonfly in Amber | 4.5/5 | 2,827 | $6.99 |
100 Travel Tips | 3.5/5 | 237 | Free |
Enhance sleep, vision, cognition, flexibility, energy, long-range health and more. Performance Lab CORE Formulas support all aspects of human performance, across all walks of life. Boosts work performance and productivity with nootropics for focus, multitasking under stress, creative problem-solving and more.
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
Collected Stories | 0/5 | 0 | $11.99 |
The Evening of the Holiday | 4/5 | 8 | $11.99 |
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think | 0/5 | 0 | $22.99 |
Greene on Capri | 0/5 | 0 | $11.99 |
People in Glass Houses | 0/5 | 0 | $11.99 |
Summary of The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller
The The Ancient Shore book written by Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller was published on 31 July 2009, Friday in the Travel & Adventure category. A total of 118 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
Book Name | Author | Price |
Tarzan the Untamed | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Free |
Off the Map | Thought Catalog | Free |
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado | United States | Free |
Laos Handbook | Asian Trails | Free |
Persia Revisited | Thomas Edward Gordon | Free |
Coinbase is the world's most trusted place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Open an account today, and if you buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin!
Book Name | Author | Price |
Biloxi Memories | Barbara Sillery | $9.99 |
Kauai 4 | Lonely Planet | $11.99 |
Rick Steves Central Europe | Rick Steves & Cameron Hewitt | $19.99 |
The Land of Jesus | Giuliano Valdes | $7.99 |
Deep South | Paul Theroux | $11.99 |
Jasper is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create content tailored for your brand 10X faster, wherever you work online.
Please wait! The Ancient Shore book comments loading...
Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller - The Ancient Shore Discussions & Comments
Have you read this book yet? What do you think about The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller book? Ask the bookpedia.co community a question about The Ancient Shore!