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River Stories

River Stories

Hughes, Henry

Hardcover

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN13: 9798217007172
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.10 Width: 4.72 Depth: 7.32
Language: English
From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames 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 The 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.

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