Wilderness Tales : : Forty Stories of the North American Wild
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Part 1. Suspense and Terror -- Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853) -- N.B. Young, Jr., Swamp Judgment (1926) -- Part 2. Women and Panthers -- James Fenimore Cooper, A Panther Tale (1823) -- Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance (1860) -- Ambrose Bierce, The Eyes of the Panther (1897) -- Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016) -- Part 3. Fire and Ice -- Jack London, To Build a Fire (1908) -- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrants of the Barren (1908) -- Howard O'Hagan, Trees Are Lonely Company (1958) -- Wallace Stegner, The Wolfer (1959) -- Part 4. Accident and Injury -- David Quammen, Walking Out (1988) -- Pam Houston, Selway (1992) -- Gretel Ehrlich, Pond Time (1998) -- Annie Proulx, Testimony of the Donkey (2008) -- Part 5. Catch and Release -- Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River (1925) -- Robert Traver, The Intruder (1960) -- Melinda Moustakis, They Find the Drowned (2011) -- Wayne Karlin, Memorial Days (2020) -- Part 6. Hunter and Hunted -- Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886) -- Sigurd Olson, Trail's End (1933) -- William Faulkner, The Old People (1940) -- Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife (2001) -- Part 7. Myth and Magic -- L. Frank Baum, The King of the Polar Bears (1901) -- Ohayohok, A Human Kayak (1940) -- Jenny Leading Cloud, Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (1967) -- Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) -- Part 8. Past and Present -- Marjorie Pickthall, The Third Generation (1918) -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944) -- Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape (1989) -- Ron Carlson, Happiness (2014) -- Part 9. Endangerment and Extinction -- Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) -- T.C. Boyle, After the Plague (1999) -- Ted Chiang, The Great Silence (2015) -- Lydia Millet, Woodland (2019) -- Part 10. Climates and Futures -- Juan Rulfo, Luvina (1953) -- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Tamarisk Hunter (2006) -- adrienne maree brown, the river (2015) -- Tommy Orange, New Jesus (2019).
"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents: Rip Van Winkle. -- Young Goodman Brown. -- Heroic slave. -- Swamp judgment. -- Panther tale. -- Circumstance. -- Eyes of the panther. -- Midnight zone. -- To build a fire. -- Vagrants of the barren.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: 593 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593318973
0593318978
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Fuss, Diana, 1960-
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Young, Nathan B., 1894-1993.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.
Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921.
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Groff, Lauren.
London, Jack, 1876-1916.
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir, 1860-1943.
SUBJECTS
Nature stories, American.
Ecofiction, American.
Frontier and pioneer life -- North America -- Fiction.
Outdoor life -- North America -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
Short stories, Mexican.
Nature fiction.
Short stories.