River Stories

Dr Henry Hughes

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English

Everyman's Library
30 September 2025

Anthologies (non-poetry); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Limnology (freshwater); Physical geography & topography

Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

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 mountain 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.

Edited by: Dr Henry Hughes
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 188mm, Width: 121mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 375g
ISBN: 9781841596396
ISBN 10: 1841596396
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Henry Hughes (Anthology Editor) HENRY 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 Fishing Stories, River Poems, and The Art of Angling- Poems about Fishing. He lives in Monmouth, Oregon.