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Stories of Trees, Woods, and the Forest

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A beautiful hardcover anthology of stories by a brilliant and surprising mix of classic and contemporary writers who have been inspired by trees and forests.
 
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," and more stories from Eudora Welty, Tove Jansson, and D.H. Lawrence.
 
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.
 
Everyman'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.

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ISBN: 9780593320181
Publication date: 7th September 2021
Author: Fiona J Stafford
Publisher: Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 479 pages
Series: Everyman's Pocket Classics
Genres: Anthologies: general
Classic fiction: general and literary
General Fiction