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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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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'. 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 McCall 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.

Info autore

Professor Fiona Stafford is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She works on literature of the Romantic period, especially Austen, Burns, Clare, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge, and on their literary influences on modern poetry. She is a regular commentator on ratio.

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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.

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Autori Fiona Stafford, Various
Con la collaborazione di Fiona Stafford (Editore), Stafford Fiona (Editore)
Editore Everyman's Library UK
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 07.10.2021
 
EAN 9781841596310
ISBN 978-1-84159-631-0
Pagine 480
Dimensioni 123 mm x 189 mm x 36 mm
Serie Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Categorie Narrativa > Romanzi
Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione

Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, FICTION / Nature & the Environment

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