{"product_id":"randall-jarrells-book-of-stories-isbn-9781590170052","title":"Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories","description":"Storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin—this is what the poet and critic Randall Jarrell set out to illuminate in this extraordinary book. Here Jarrell presents ballads, parables, anecdotes, and legends along with some of the finest work of Chekhov, Babel, Elizabeth Bowen, Isak Dinesen, Kafka, Peter Taylor, and Katherine Anne Porter. This wonderful anthology, with its celebrated introductory essay, enlarges and deepens our perception of the storyteller's art and its central place in the world of our feelings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eRANDALL JARRELL: Introduction\u003cbr\u003eFRANZ KAFKA: A Country Doctor\u003cbr\u003eANTON CHEKHOV: Gusev\u003cbr\u003eRAINER MARIA RILKE: The Wrecked Houses; The Big Thing\u003cbr\u003eROBERT FROST: The Witch of Coös\u003cbr\u003eGIOVANNI VERGA: La Lupa\u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI GOGOL: The Nose\u003cbr\u003eELIZABETH BOWEN: Her Table Spread\u003cbr\u003eLUDWIG TIECK: Fair Eckbert\u003cbr\u003eBERTOLT BRECHT: Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar\u003cbr\u003eLEO TOLSTOY: The Three Hermits\u003cbr\u003ePETER TAYLOR: What You Hear from 'Em?\u003cbr\u003eHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: The Fir Tree\u003cbr\u003eKATHERINE ANNE PORTER: He\u003cbr\u003eANONYMOUS: The Red King and the Witch\u003cbr\u003eANTON CHEKHOV: Rothschild's Fiddle\u003cbr\u003eTHE BROTHERS GRIMM: Cat and Mouse in Partnership\u003cbr\u003eE. M. FORSTER: The Story of the Siren\u003cbr\u003eTHE BOOK OF JONAH\u003cbr\u003eFRANZ KAFKA: The Bucket-Rider\u003cbr\u003eSAINT-SIMON: The Death of Monseigneur\u003cbr\u003eISAAC BABEL: Awakening\u003cbr\u003eCHUANG T'ZU: Five Anecdotes\u003cbr\u003eHUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL: A Tale of the Cavalry\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM BLAKE: The Mental Traveller\u003cbr\u003eD. H. LAWRENCE: Samson and Delilah\u003cbr\u003eLEO TOLSTOY: The Porcelain Doll\u003cbr\u003eIVAN TURGENEV: Byezhin Prairie\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage\u003cbr\u003eFRANK O'CONNOR: Peasants\u003cbr\u003eISAK DINESEN: Sorrow-AcreTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRANDALL JARRELL: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRANZ KAFKA: A Country Doctor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANTON CHEKHOV: Gusev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRAINER MARIA RILKE: The Wrecked Houses; The Big Thing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROBERT FROST: The Witch of Co̦s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGIOVANNI VERGA: La Lupa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI GOGOL: The Nose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELIZABETH BOWEN: Her Table Spread\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUDWIG TIECK: Fair Eckbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBERTOLT BRECHT: Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLEO TOLSTOY: The Three Hermits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePETER TAYLOR: What You Hear from ‘Em?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: The Fir Tree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKATHERINE ANNE PORTER: He\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANONYMOUS: The Red King and the Witch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANTON CHEKHOV: Rothschild’s Fiddle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BROTHERS GRIMM: Cat and Mouse in Partnership\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eE. M. FORSTER: The Story of the Siren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BOOK OF JONAH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRANZ KAFKA: The Bucket-Rider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSAINT-SIMON: The Death of Monseigneur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISAAC BABEL: Awakening\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHUANG T’ZU: Five Anecdotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL: A Tale of the Cavalry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM BLAKE: The Mental Traveller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eD. H. LAWRENCE: Samson and Delilah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLEO TOLSTOY: The Porcelain Doll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIVAN TURGENEV: Byezhin Prairie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRANK O’CONNOR: Peasants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISAK DINESEN: Sorrow-Acre\"Long out of print, this landmark volume—and the sweeping essay at the front—may change how you think about fiction. (It may also change how you think about your own life.) This is a book to return to, and to keep.\" — Stephen Burt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It has been clear for some time that Randall Jarrell is one of the most gifted poets and critics of his generation.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Randall Jarrell was such a gifted reader of poetry that it’s easy to overlook how keenly he read and discussed prose. The introduction to this wide—ranging collection is alone worth the price of admission: a brilliant, characteristically light—stepping little journey into the heart of the narrative impulse. This is as fine an entry into the art of the short story as any I know.\" — Brad Leithauser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Jarrell was] perhaps the most fearsome (and admired) American critic of the twentieth century.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"My favorite short—story anthology is Randall Jarrell’s, with a brilliant essay as a preface.\" — Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washignton Post\u003c\/i\u003eRandall Jarrell (1914-1965) was born in Tennessee and graduated from Vanderbilt. A poet, novelist, translator, and critic as well as writer for children, Jarrell was a prolific author whose best-known works include the poems collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Woman at the Washington Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost World\u003c\/i\u003e, the academic comedy\u003ci\u003ePictures from an Institution\u003c\/i\u003e, the children’s story \u003ci\u003eThe Bat Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry and the Age\u003c\/i\u003e, a group of essays. An influential critic who, as poetry reviewer for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, helped to launch the careers of Robert Lowell and other contemporaries, Jarrell taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, where he was much revered. 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