Results for "Hardwick, Elizabeth"

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 ... Read More about Sleepless Nights

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, ... Read More about The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell KentNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadFirst published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Cap... Read More about Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginativ... Read More about The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

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 as Par... Read More about The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.The beautiful... Read More about The House of Mirth (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)