River stories

R$ 138,90

Sinopse

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi - the rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world`s great writers.Rivers and streams play a magical part in our landscapes, our history and our imagination. These stories sail along- taking us on journeys from montain range through village, city and countryside to the ports and docks and on to the wide oceans beyond. Beautifully produced in a hardcover, gift edition.The tales collected here include stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse, Zora Neale Hurston, Cormac McCarthy, Elif Shafak, and many more. Miniature masterpieces set against the backdrop of moving waters, in testament to the enduring power of rivers in the human imagination.River 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 ‘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.From The Wind in the Willows to Huckleberry Finn, 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.

Participantes

Autor: Harriet Beecher Stowe | Guy de Maupassant | Hermann Hesse | Zora Neale Hurston | Cormac Mccarthy | Elif Shafak | Ovid | Rabindranath Tagore | Mark Twain | Kenneth Grahame | Ernest Hemingway | Alice Munro | Zadie Smith

Organizador: Henry Hughes

Autor

ALICE MUNRO

Alice Munro nasceu em 1931 em Wingham, no Canadá. Dona da livraria mais famosa de seu país e de uma das carreiras mais respeitáveis da literatura de língua inglesa, é autora de diversos livros de contos, traduzidos para mais de dez idiomas. Recebeu numerosos prêmios literários ao longo de sua carreira, incluindo o Nobel de literatura, em 2013. Pela primeira vez o prêmio foi destinado a um escritor especializado em contos.