River Stories - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798217007172

Editeur : Everyman's Library, 2025

Synopsis

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi—the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers.

River gods and nymphs frolic in Ovid's mythic telling. The trickster Coyote reroutes a river in a Native American tale. A set of stone steps at the shore of the Ganges bears witness to heartbreak in Rabindranath Tagore's "River Stairs," and Mark Twain floats his rebellious heroes on a raft to freedom. Kenneth Grahame's Rat and Mole explore their local waterway in a rowboat, and Ernest Hemingway's war-weary veteran finds peace while catching trout.

From The Wind in the Willows to Huckleberry Finn, from Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" to Alice Munro's "The Found Boat" and Zadie Smith's "The Lazy River," the tales collected here—by such luminaries as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, E. M. Forster, Hermann Hesse, Zora Neale Hurston, Cormac McCarthy, Elif Shafak, and many more—set moving scenes against the backdrop of moving waters, in testament to the enduring power of rivers in the human imagination.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases, with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

HENRY HUGHES is a poet, essayist, and professor of English at Western Oregon University. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, he is also the editor of the Everyman's Library collections Fishing Stories, River Poems, and The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Everyman's Library
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798217007172
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Hughes Henry
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Everyman's Library; https://myeverymanslibrary.com; ; Attn: Andrea T Sheridan 1745 BROADWAY, 14-1; NEW YORK; NY; 10019; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible