Francis Steegmuller: 3 books
by Francis Steegmuller
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Born in Australia, novelist 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, in which the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden constantly became reanimated by new experiences, as Hazzard...
The Ancient Shore
Dispatches from Naples
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
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...
A Woman, a Man, and Two Kingdoms
The Story of Madame d'Epinay and the Abbe Galiani
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Pre-revolutionary Paris comes to life in this fascinating story surrounding the correspondence between two colorful and witty society figures: the French author Louise d'Épinay and the Italian priest-diplomat Ferdinando Galiani. Their friends included Voltaire, Diderot, Melchior Grimm, and the famous...