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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

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Name: Shirley Hazzard
Birth Date: January 30, 1931
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Female

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Biography of Shirley Hazzard
3602 words, approx. 12 pages
Shirley Hazzard's fiction is known and admired for its complexly bourgeois pleasures and interests, its internal personal and symbolic dynamics and complexities. However, also important to Hazzard are what she calls, according to Peter Fuller (The Canber...


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The Spectator
The Great Fire
11/15/2003: 824 words, approx. 3 pages
THE GREAT FIRE by Shirley Hazzard Virago, L15.99, pp. 314, ISBN 1860498906 Travelling far without finding home This unusual and nostalgic novel comes from a writer whose last work, The Transit of Venus, remains as startling and effective today as it did...
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The Boston Globe
Remembering The Great Fire
09/17/2000: 623 words, approx. 2 pages
PROVINCETOWN - Step inside the Provincetown Tales museum and you immediately smell smoke. A fire engine's light flashes and a dispatcher's voice crackles over a radio in the background, sending out a call for help. Visitors to the museum, which opens Wednesday, will...
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AP News
Today in history - July 18
7/18/2007: 589 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Wednesday, July 18, the 199th day of 2007. There are 166 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 18, 1947, President Harry Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore...
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Today in history - Sept. 2
9/2/2007: 568 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Sunday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2007. There are 120 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II.On this date:In 1666, the Great Fire of London...
 


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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

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