http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/hiroshima The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/boldface-dates <p>The Great Fire of London in 1666. The Great War. The Blitz. The Second World War. The 20th century itself. Love. The characters and narrator of Hazzard’s <i>The Great Fire</i> (2003) attribute the title variously throughout the novel. They read “the great fire” as many fires, real and metaphorical.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/boldface-dates">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/boldface-dates#comments atomic bomb contemporary fiction Hiroshima mid-century Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/914 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:13:39 -0700 Claire Bowen 914 at http://arcade.stanford.edu