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Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild / edited with an introduction and commentary by Diana Fuss.
Van Pelt Library PS648.N32 W55 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature stories, American.
- Ecofiction, American.
- Frontier and pioneer life--North America--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Outdoor life--North America--Fiction.
- Outdoor life.
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories, Canadian.
- Short stories, Mexican.
- North America.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Nature fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 593 pages : illustrations, ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Summary:
- "An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I SUSPENSE AND TERROR
- "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) / Washington Irving
- "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "The Heroic Slave" (1853) / Frederick Douglass
- "Swamp Judgment" (1926) / N. B. Young Jr.
- pt. 2 WOMEN AND PANTHERS
- "A Panther Tale" (1823) / James Fenimore Cooper
- "Circumstance" (i860) / Harriet Prescott Spofford
- "The Eyes of the Panther" (1897) / Ambrose Bierce
- "The Midnight Zone" (2016) / Lauren Groff
- pt. 3 FIRE AND ICE
- "To Build a Fire" (1908) / Jack London
- "The Vagrants of the Barren" (1908) / Charles G. D. Roberts
- "Trees Are Lonely Company" (1958) / Howard O'Hagan
- "The Wolfer" (1959) / Wallace Stegner
- pt. 4 ACCIDENT AND INJURY
- "Walking Out" (1988) / David Quammen
- "Selway" (1992) / Pam Houston
- "Pond Time" (1998) / Gretel Ehrlich
- "Testimony of the Donkey" (2008) / Annie Proulx
- pt. 5 CATCH AND RELEASE
- "Big Two Hearted River" (1925) / Ernest Hemingway
- "The Intruder" (i960) / Robert Traver
- "They Find the Drowned" (2011) / Melinda Moustakis
- "Memorial Days" (2020) / Wayne Karlin
- pt. 6 HUNTERAND HUNTED
- "A White Heron" (1886) / Sarah Orne Jewett
- "Trail's End" (1933) / Sigurd Olson
- "The Old People" (1940) / William Faulkner
- "The Hunter's Wife" (2001) / Anthony Doerr
- pt. 7 MYTH AND MAGIC
- "The King of the Polar Bears" (1901) / L. Frank Baum
- "A Human Kayak" (1940) / Ohayohok
- "Spotted Eagle and Black Crow" (1967) / Jenny Leading Cloud
- "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" (2006) / Karen Russell
- pt. 8 PAST AND PRESENT
- "The Third Generation" (1918) / Marjorie Pickthall
- "The Wind and the Snow of Winter" (1944) / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- "Death by Landscape" (1989) / Margaret Atwood
- "Happiness" (2014) / Ron Carlson
- pt. 9 ENDANGERMENT AND EXTINCTION
- "The Fog Horn" (1951) / Ray Bradbury
- "After the Plague" (1999) / T. C. Boyle
- "The Great Silence" (2015) / Ted Chiang
- "Woodland" (2019) / Lydia Millet
- pt. 10 CLIMATES AND FUTURES
- "Luvina" (1953) / Juan Rulfo
- "The Tamarisk Hunter" (2006) / Paolo Bacigalupi
- "the river" (2015) / Adrienne Maree Brown
- "Newjesus" (2019) / Tommy Orange.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wilderness tales
- ISBN:
- 9780593318973
- 0593318978
- OCLC:
- 1322812641
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