{"product_id":"river-stories-isbn-9798217007172","title":"River Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiver 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in the Willows\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman'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.\u003cb\u003eFREEDOM ON THE WATER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain, “It’s Lovely to Live on a Raft” (from \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn, \u003c\/i\u003e1885)\u003cbr\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe, “The Mother’s Struggle” (from \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin, \u003c\/i\u003e1852)\u003cbr\u003eKunikida Doppo, “River Mist” (1898)\u003cbr\u003eErnest Hemingway, “Big Two-Hearted River” (1925)\u003cbr\u003eE. M. Forster, “The Road from Colonus” (1904)\u003cbr\u003eAlice Munro, “The Found Boat” (1974)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDRAMA AND DANGER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuy De Maupassant, “On the Water” (1876)\u003cbr\u003eTraditional Mexican, “La Llorona”\u003cbr\u003eAmbrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) \u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Jane Howard, ‘Three Miles Up” (1951) \u003cbr\u003eCormac McCarthy, ‘The Dark Waters” (1965) \u003cbr\u003eOleksander Dobzhansky, “Easter Flood” (1948) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLOVE AND LOSS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZora Neale Hurston, “Magnolia Flower” (1925) \u003cbr\u003eRabindranath Tagore, “The River Stairs” (1884) \u003cbr\u003eErskine Caldwell, “Warm River” (1932) \u003cbr\u003eHuynh Quang Nhuong, “So Close” (1982) \u003cbr\u003eSalwa Elhamamsy, “By the Nile” (2023) \u003cbr\u003eLesley Nneka Arimah, “What Is a Volcano?” (2017) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMYSTIC RIVERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOvid, “Arethusa” (8 CE) \u003cbr\u003eTao Yuanming, “Peach Blossom Spring” (421 CE) 263\u003cbr\u003eTraditional Kalapuya, “Coyote Frees Water from the Frog People” \u003cbr\u003eKenneth Grahame, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (from \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in the Willows, \u003c\/i\u003e1908) \u003cbr\u003eHerman Hesse, “The Ferryman” (1922) \u003cbr\u003eTony Birch, “Th e Ghost River” (2013) \u003cbr\u003eZadie Smith, “The Lazy River” (2017) \u003cbr\u003eElif Shafak, “Zaleekhah” (from \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky, \u003c\/i\u003e2024)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 \u003ci\u003eFishing Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiver Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301110337765,"sku":"NP9798217007172","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798217007172.jpg?v=1767735817","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/river-stories-isbn-9798217007172","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}