{"product_id":"river-stories-9798217007172","title":"River Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi--the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHENRY 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51260190523666,"sku":"9798217007172","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42c7aa40-977d-4744-93bd-6e53d68255a2.jpg?v=1746639066","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/river-stories-9798217007172","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}