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American Fictions by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Culture | Series: Modern Library
This book guides you through a century of American literature with essays on some of the most prominent American authors, many of them becoming a invaluable reminiscence about her close friends.
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Languages and Reference
'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick considers the history of women and literature. She imagines the lives of the Brontes, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the s ...Show more
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Culture
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 of cri ...Show more
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Biography
'A series of fleeting images and memories ... united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' - Sally RooneyI am alone here in New York, no longer a we ...First published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of fiction and memoir, letters and essays, portraits and dreams. It is ...Show more
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
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 is not only ...Show more
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Culture
Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her. She wrote sketches for various occasions and countless essays ...Show more
The Dolphin Letters by Elizabeth Hardwick; Robert Lowell; Saskia Hamilton (Editor)
Category: Biography
The correspondence between one of the most famous couples of twentieth-century literatureThe 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 for both wr ...Show more
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979 - Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle by Elizabeth Hardwick; Robert Lowell
Category: Biography
The correspondence between one of the most famous couples of twentieth-century literatureThe 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 for both wr ...Show more
The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America's great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, tucked away in the pages of the periodicals-such as Partisan Review, The New ...Show more
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick; Alex Andriesse (Introduction by, Editor)
Category: Languages and Reference
Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for ...Show more
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo; Elizabeth Hardwick (Introduction by); William Weaver (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
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