Stories Of Trees Woods And The Forest

Description: A beautiful hardcover anthology of stories by a brilliant and surprising mix of classic and contemporary writers who have been inspired by trees and forests. Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands sacred groves and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest (via Thomas Love Peacock's Maid Marian) to Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and more stories from Eudora Welty Tove Jansson and D. H. Lawrence. Here are forest - haunted fairy tales both classic (the Brothers Grimm) and inventively retold (Angela Carter). There is room in these woods for comedy as well as terror in Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm and Alexander Mc Call Smith's Head Tree. Notable writers from around the world contribute arboreal fiction from South Africa Finland France Zimbabwe Russia Martinique and India as well as Britain Ireland Canada and America. From Daphne du Maurier's The Apple Tree to R. K. Narayan's Under the Banyan Tree. The sheer range of stories in these pages will leave readers refreshed and dazzled. 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.
Title: Stories Of Trees Woods And The Forest
Barcode: 9780593320181
Publication Date: 9/7/2021
Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series