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American Fictionsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0375754822 (0-375-75482-2)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Fictions'Book summary:"Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenburg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay."
--The New Yorker
A brilliant tour of a century American writers, from the novels of Melville, Wharton and James to the fictions of Margaret Fuller, Sylvia Plath and Norman Mailer. Twenty-five years ago, Elizabeth Hardwick's now classic essay "Seduction and Betrayal" helped pioneer the study of women in fiction, both as writers and as characters. American Fictions gathers fro the first time Hardwick's portraits of America's greatest writers. Many of these pieces double as individual reminiscences about close friends, including Mary McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter and Edmund Wilson. Hardwick has achieved a permanent place in American letters for her sharp and elegant style. Her essays are themselves a work of literature. [via]More editions of American Fictions:
Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essaysby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0394723740 (0-394-72374-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Bend in the Riverby V. S. Naipaul, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0679602674 (0-679-60267-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bend in the River'Book summary:First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is a profound and richly observed novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new. "Naipaul's novels are about the struggle for existence in a world still colonial despite the breakup of the old Western empires," wrote Alfred Kazin.
A Bend in the River is demonstration of V. S. Naipaul's status as one of the world's best novelists. The New York Times Book Review noted: "For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul." Elizabeth Hardwick, who has provided a
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see the inside of the jacketnew Introduction for this Modern Library edition, has said, "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." [via]More editions of A Bend in the River:
The Best American Essays: 1986by Robert Atwan, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0317533576 (0-317-53357-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Daisy Millerby Robert Atwan, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0375759662 (0-375-75966-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Herman Melvilleby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0670891584 (0-670-89158-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The House of Mirthby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0375753753 (0-375-75375-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938by Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0156447878 (0-15-644787-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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A New America: Essaysby Elizabeth Hardwick , Stephen Richards Graubard, DdalusISBN 0393011976 (0-393-01197-6)
Hardcover, Norton
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Northanger Abbeyby Elizabeth Hardwick , Stephen Richards Graubard, DdalusISBN 0451523725 (0-451-52372-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Nothing Is Sacredby Josephine Herbst, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0405100507 (0-405-10050-7)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Redburnby Herman Melville, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0375760040 (0-375-76004-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literatureby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0297768573 (0-297-76857-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature'Book summary: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 criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. [via]
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The Selected Letters of William Jamesby William James, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0385469411 (0-385-46941-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sight-Readings: American Fictionsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0375753710 (0-375-75371-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sight-Readings: American Fictions'Book summary:Although Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of two highly praised novels--one of them, Sleepless Nights, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award--she is primarily known as a critic. Yet that word, with its contemporary whiff of consumer advocacy, doesn't quite fit the bill either. Hardwick never practices the literary equivalent of quality control, never bestows her stamp of approval on the likes of Henry James or Elizabeth Bishop. Instead she creates brilliant, unpredictable narratives, in which books and their authors are the main characters.
In Sight-Readings, her fourth collection of essays, Hardwick trains her superbly idiosyncratic eye on a procession of American writers. Rolling out the red carpet for Henry James, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Margaret Fuller, or Richard Ford, she dares us not to read her pick hits. Of course, this wittiest of critics is willing to administer the occasional cudgel, decrying the nonstop fornication in John Updike's novels or the "infernal indiscretion" of Vachel Lindsay's poetry. But even her most acerbic pronouncements, like this one about incessant word-tinkerer Gertrude Stein, tell us something valuable: "When she is not tinkering, we can see her like a peasant assaulting the chicken for Sunday dinner. She would wring the neck of her words." And Hardwick's digressions are invariably gifts, essayistic windfalls. Discussing Edith Wharton's rather tony vision of Manhattan, for example, she writes: "New York, with its statistical sensationalism, is a shallow vessel for memory since it lives in a continuous present, making it difficult to recall the shape of the loss deplored, whether it be the gray tin of the newsstand or the narrow closet for the neighborhood's dry cleaning, there and gone over a vacation." As a summation of the city's self-perpetuating amnesia, you couldn't do better than that. It should be emblazoned, in tiny letters, on the back of each and every subway token. --James Marcus [via]
Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0297776673 (0-297-77667-3)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleepless Nights'Book summary:In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her lifethe parade of people, the shifting background of placeand 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 Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years. [via]
A Susan Sontag Readerby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0394715691 (0-394-71569-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Societyby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0374936617 (0-374-93661-7)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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Zeno's Conscienceby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0375413308 (0-375-41330-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The modern Italian classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, Zenos Conscience is a marvel of psychological insight, published here in a fine new translation by William Weaverthe first in more than seventy years.
Italo Svevos masterpiece tells the story of a hapless, doubting, guilt-ridden man paralyzed by fits of ecstasy and despair and tickled by his own cleverness. His doctor advises him, as a form of therapy, to write his memoirs; in doing so, Zeno reconstructs and ultimately reshapes the events of his life into a palatable reality for himselfa reality, however, founded on compromise, delusion, and rationalization.
With cigarette in hand, Zeno sets out in search of health and happiness, hoping along the way to free himself from countless vices, not least of which is his accursed last cigarette! (Zenos famously ineffectual refrain is inevitably followed by a lapse in resolve.) His amorous wanderings win him the shrill affections of an aspiring coloratura, and his confidence in his financial savoir-faire involves him in a hopeless speculative enterprise. Meanwhile, his trusting wife reliably awaits his return at appointed mealtimes.
Zenos adventures rise to antic heights in this pioneering psychoanalytic novel, as his restlessly self-preserving commentary inventively embroiders the truth. Absorbing and devilishly entertaining, Zenos Conscience is at once a comedy of errors, a sly testimonial to the joys of procrastination, and a surpassingly lucid vision of human nature by one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century. [via]More editions of Zeno's Conscience:
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