Elizabeth Hardwick

Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays

The Best American Essays: 1986

A View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Society

Sight-Readings : American Fictions

American Fictions

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Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)

Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as ...

Herman Melville

A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging sha...

Sight-Readings: American Fictions

It is only in a country where newness and change and brevity of tenure are the common substance of life," wrote Henry James, "that the fact of one's ancestors having lived for a hundred and seventy years in a single spot would become an element of one's morality." Newness and rootedness are the twin...

American Fictions

"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 YorkerA brilliant tour of a century American writers, from the novels of Melvil...

Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays

Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938 (Harvest Book)

Mary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American Communist Party, and was married to activist actor/playwright Harold Johnsrud. Foreword by Elizabeth ...

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (New York Review Books Classics)

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...

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

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...