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Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild / edited with an introduction and commentary by Diana Fuss.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 593 pages : illustrations, ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593318973
  • 0593318978
Other title:
  • Forty stories of the North American wild
  • Wilderness tales : 40 stories of the North American wild
  • 40 stories of the North American wild
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction. -- Part 1. Suspense and terror: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving (1819) -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835) -- The heroic slave / Frederick Douglass (1853) -- Swamp judgment / N.B. Young, Jr. (1926). -- Part 2. Women and panthers: A panther tale / James Fenimore Cooper (1823) -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1860) -- The eyes of the panther / Ambrose Bierce (1897) -- The midnight zone / Lauren Groff (2016). -- Part 3. Fire and ice: To build a fire / Jack London (1908) -- The vagrants of the barren / Charles G.D. Roberts (1908) -- Trees are lonely company / Howard O'Hagan (1958) -- The wolfer / Wallace Stegner (1959). -- Part 4. Accident and injury: Walking out / David Quammen (1988) -- Selway / Pam Houston (1991) -- Pond time / Gretel Ehrlich (1998) -- Testimony of the donkey / Annie Proulx (2008). -- Part 5. Catch and release: Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway (1925) -- The intruder / Robert Traver (1960) -- They find the drowned / Melinda Moustakis (2011) -- Memorial days / Wayne Karlin (2020). --
Part 6. Hunter and hunted: A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett (1886) -- Trail's end / Sigurd Olson (1933) -- The old people / William Faulkner (1940) -- The hunter's wife / Anthony Doerr (2001). -- Part 7. Myth and magic: The king of the polar bears / L. Frank Baum (1901) -- A human kayak / Ohayohok (1940) -- Spotted Eagle and Black Crow / Jenny Leading Cloud (1967) -- St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / Karen Russell (2006). -- Part 8. Past and present: The third generation / Marjorie Pickthall (1918) -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1944) -- Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood (1989) -- Happiness / Ron Carlson (2014). -- Part 9. Endangerment and extinction: The fog horn / Ray Bradbury (1953) -- After the plague / T.C. Boyle (2001) -- The great silence / Ted Chiang (2015) -- Woodland / Lydia Millet (2019). -- Part 10. Climates and futures: Luvina / Juan Rulfo (1953) -- The tamarisk hunter / Paolo Bacigalupi (2006) -- the river / adrienne maree brown (2015) -- New Jesus / Tommy Orange (2019). -- Suggested further wilderness reading -- Sugested further story reading -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: A collection of short stories about the North American wilderness and outdoor life. They reveal the many ways in which the North American literary landscape has shaped-- and is shaped by-- our conceptions of the wild. Mystery, myth and magic, danger and survival, retreat and solitude, and even tales of environment and extinction fill these pages. Fuss includes an introductory text and commentary showing the evolution of the wilderness story, from the early 1800s to modern day. -- adapted from jacket
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A dazzling collection of short stories about North American outdoor life-both classic and contemporary-from James Fenimore Cooper and Jack London to Margaret Atwood and Anthony Doerr and many more.

The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild.

From the nineteenth century's Washington Irving ("Rip Van Winkle") to the twenty-first century's Ted Chiang ("The Great Silence")-a panoramic view of wilderness fiction, from Gothic tales of mystery and suspense ("The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass), to tales of danger and survival ("Walking Out" by David Quammen); from modern tales of retreat and solitude ("Happiness" by Ron Carlson), to never-before-told tales of our new reality-of environment and extinction ("the river" by adrienne maree brown)- these are stories that reveal the many ways in which the American literary landscape has shaped-and is shaped by-our conceptions of the wild.

Diana Fuss nimbly shows, in her introductory text and commentary throughout, the development of the wilderness story, from its emergence in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Young Goodman Brown") and James Fenimore Cooper ("A Panther Tale"), to the height of its popularity in the stories of Jack London ("To Build a Fire"), to the environmentally conscious writing of T. C. Boyle ("After the Plague") and Karen Russell ("St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves").

Among those whose work appears in the collection- Wallace Stegner, Annie Proulx, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, L. Frank Baum, Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Ray Bradbury.

"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction. -- Part 1. Suspense and terror: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving (1819) -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835) -- The heroic slave / Frederick Douglass (1853) -- Swamp judgment / N.B. Young, Jr. (1926). -- Part 2. Women and panthers: A panther tale / James Fenimore Cooper (1823) -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1860) -- The eyes of the panther / Ambrose Bierce (1897) -- The midnight zone / Lauren Groff (2016). -- Part 3. Fire and ice: To build a fire / Jack London (1908) -- The vagrants of the barren / Charles G.D. Roberts (1908) -- Trees are lonely company / Howard O'Hagan (1958) -- The wolfer / Wallace Stegner (1959). -- Part 4. Accident and injury: Walking out / David Quammen (1988) -- Selway / Pam Houston (1991) -- Pond time / Gretel Ehrlich (1998) -- Testimony of the donkey / Annie Proulx (2008). -- Part 5. Catch and release: Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway (1925) -- The intruder / Robert Traver (1960) -- They find the drowned / Melinda Moustakis (2011) -- Memorial days / Wayne Karlin (2020). --

Part 6. Hunter and hunted: A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett (1886) -- Trail's end / Sigurd Olson (1933) -- The old people / William Faulkner (1940) -- The hunter's wife / Anthony Doerr (2001). -- Part 7. Myth and magic: The king of the polar bears / L. Frank Baum (1901) -- A human kayak / Ohayohok (1940) -- Spotted Eagle and Black Crow / Jenny Leading Cloud (1967) -- St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / Karen Russell (2006). -- Part 8. Past and present: The third generation / Marjorie Pickthall (1918) -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1944) -- Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood (1989) -- Happiness / Ron Carlson (2014). -- Part 9. Endangerment and extinction: The fog horn / Ray Bradbury (1953) -- After the plague / T.C. Boyle (2001) -- The great silence / Ted Chiang (2015) -- Woodland / Lydia Millet (2019). -- Part 10. Climates and futures: Luvina / Juan Rulfo (1953) -- The tamarisk hunter / Paolo Bacigalupi (2006) -- the river / adrienne maree brown (2015) -- New Jesus / Tommy Orange (2019). -- Suggested further wilderness reading -- Sugested further story reading -- Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.

A collection of short stories about the North American wilderness and outdoor life. They reveal the many ways in which the North American literary landscape has shaped-- and is shaped by-- our conceptions of the wild. Mystery, myth and magic, danger and survival, retreat and solitude, and even tales of environment and extinction fill these pages. Fuss includes an introductory text and commentary showing the evolution of the wilderness story, from the early 1800s to modern day. -- adapted from jacket

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