Elizabeth Hardwick: 9 books

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,...

Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such...

The correspondence between one of the most famous couples of twentieth-century literature The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell’s life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation...

In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book...

The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work...

›Verführung und Betrug‹ kreist um die Rolle der Frau in der Literatur, sowohl als Autorin als auch als Heldin oder Opfer in den erzählerischen Werken der Weltliteratur. Elizabeth Hardwick stellt uns die Brontës vor Augen, die Frauen in Ibsens Dramen, die "Opfer und Sieger" Zelda Fitzgerald,...

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question...

›Schlaflose Nächte‹ ist ein Buch der Erinnerung, vor allem eine große Reflexion über das Wesen der Erinnerung selbst. Die Pferderennen von Kentucky, die Jazz-Clubs in der 52. Straße von New York, Billie Holiday in Harlem, die feinen Viertel von Boston, Sommer in Neuengland und Winter in Manhattan...

This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published...