Elizabeth Hardwick Book order (chronological)

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 many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here—none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick’s work—make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner’s Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick’s passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything.

First published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is acknowledged as the finest achievement of the great Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis, and among the most important novels ever written in the Portuguese language.

Der Sohn eines Kaufmanns, der sein Glück als Matrose an Bord eines Walfängers suchte, die Südsee bereiste und auf abenteuerlichem Wege desertierte, wagte den Beruf des freien Schriftstellers, nachdem seine Bücher über die literarisch noch unerschlossene Südsee Anklang fanden. Aus Sorge ums tägliche Brot zu populären Stoffen gezwungen, schockierte er Gesellschaft und religiöse Kreise durch Angriffe auf Missionare und Lob der Primitiven, flammte gegen Unterdrückung und die Prügelstrafe, bis ihm mit "Moby Dick" die größte symbolistische Prosadichtung Amerikas und die wohl reichste Seegeschichte der Welt gelang. Mit stilistischer, ja poetischer Eleganz fängt Elizabeth Hardwick die Höhen und Tiefen eines Lebens ein, das ebenso abenteuerlich begann, wie es in stiller Verborgenheit endete: Herman Melville starb als einsamer Zollinspektor von der Welt vergessen, bevor er als Schöpfer eines unsterblichen Meisterwerks in den Kanon der Literaturgiganten Eingang fand.§

The life story of the author of Moby-Dick furnishes an analysis of all of Melville's writings and depicts his days as a whaleship deckhand and his bitterness over the public's failure to embrace his master work, Moby-Dick. 25,000 first printing.

›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, Sylvia Plath und Virginia Woolf, und die »Amateure«, die Begleiterinnen großer Männer, Dorothy Wordsworth und Jane Carlyle, die selber Tagebücher und Skizzen von hohem Wert hinterließen.(Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1985 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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 Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.

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.