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Title:

Stories of trees, woods, and the forest / edited by Fiona Stafford.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

479 pages ; 19 cm

Subject:

Trees--Literary collections.
Forests and forestry--Literary collections.
Nature--Literary collections.
Ecology--Literary collections.
Ecology.
Forests and forestry.
Nature.
Trees.
Literary collections.
Short stories.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Stafford, Fiona J., writer of preface. writer of preface.

Contents:

Under the banyon tree / R.K. Narayan. Orpheus' audience of trees / Ovid -- Head tree / Alexander McCall Smith -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The apple tree / Daphne du Maurier -- Happiness / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- A tale / Jane Austen -- Love / Yuri Olyesha -- The shades of spring / D.H. Lawrence -- From Cold comfort farm / Stella Gibbons -- The totara tree / Roderick Finlayson -- A still moment / Eudora Welty -- The transformation of Daphne / Ovid -- The road to the shore / Michael McLaverty -- Summer / Dorothy Baker -- Flowers! Lovely flowers! / Joseph Zobel -- Why don't you carve other animals / Yvonne Vera -- Shadows / Damon Galgut -- The forest / Tove Jansson -- The outlaws / Ursula Moray Williams -- From Maid Marian / Thomas Love Peacock -- Iron Hans / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The company of wolves / Angela Carter -- The gold of Fairnilee / Andrew Lang -- The pool and the tree / Mary De Morgan -- The man who planted trees / Jean Giono -- The man who harvested trees (and gifted life) / Gabriel Hemery -- Baucis and Philemon / Ovid -- Under the banyon tree / R.K. Narayan.

Series:

Everyman's pocket classics

ISBN:

9780593320181
0593320182

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1227030402

Locations:

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)