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Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild, edited with an introduction and commentary by Diana Fuss

Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xxi, 593 pages
Contents
  • Part 1. Suspense and Terror
  • Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835)
  • Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853)
  • N.B. Young, Jr., Swamp Judgment (1926)
  • Part 2. Women and Panthers
  • James Fenimore Cooper, A Panther Tale (1823)
  • Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance (1860)
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Eyes of the Panther (1897)
  • Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016)
  • Part 3. Fire and Ice
  • Jack London, To Build a Fire (1908)
  • Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrants of the Barren (1908)
  • Howard O'Hagan, Trees Are Lonely Company (1958)
  • Wallace Stegner, The Wolfer (1959)
  • Part 4. Accident and Injury
  • David Quammen, Walking Out (1988)
  • Pam Houston, Selway (1992)
  • Gretel Ehrlich, Pond Time (1998)
  • Annie Proulx, Testimony of the Donkey (2008)
  • Part 5. Catch and Release
  • Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River (1925)
  • Robert Traver, The Intruder (1960)
  • Melinda Moustakis, They Find the Drowned (2011)
  • Wayne Karlin, Memorial Days (2020)
  • Part 6. Hunter and Hunted
  • Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886)
  • Sigurd Olson, Trail's End (1933)
  • William Faulkner, The Old People (1940)
  • Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife (2001)
  • Part 7. Myth and Magic
  • L. Frank Baum, The King of the Polar Bears (1901)
  • Ohayohok, A Human Kayak (1940)
  • Jenny Leading Cloud, Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (1967)
  • Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006)
  • Part 8. Past and Present
  • Marjorie Pickthall, The Third Generation (1918)
  • Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944)
  • Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape (1989)
  • Ron Carlson, Happiness (2014)
  • Part 9. Endangerment and Extinction
  • Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951)
  • T.C. Boyle, After the Plague (1999)
  • Ted Chiang, The Great Silence (2015)
  • Lydia Millet, Woodland (2019)
  • Part 10. Climates and Futures
  • Juan Rulfo, Luvina (1953)
  • Paolo Bacigalupi, The Tamarisk Hunter (2006)
  • adrienne maree brown, the river (2015)
  • Tommy Orange, New Jesus (2019)
Isbn
9780593318973
Instance
Label
Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild
Title
Wilderness tales
Title remainder
forty stories of the North American wild
Statement of responsibility
edited with an introduction and commentary by Diana Fuss
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
813/.6
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS648.N32
LC item number
W55 2023
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1960-
  • 1783-1859
  • 1804-1864
  • 1818-1895
  • 1894-1993
  • 1789-1851
  • 1835-1921
  • 1842-1914?
  • 1876-1916
  • 1860-1943
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Fuss, Diana
  • Irving, Washington
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  • Douglass, Frederick
  • Young, Nathan B.
  • Cooper, James Fenimore
  • Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott
  • Bierce, Ambrose
  • Groff, Lauren
  • London, Jack
  • Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Nature stories, American
  • Ecofiction, American
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Outdoor life
  • Short stories, American
  • Short stories, Canadian
  • Short stories, Mexican
Label
Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild, edited with an introduction and commentary by Diana Fuss
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-586)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part 1. Suspense and Terror -- Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853) -- N.B. Young, Jr., Swamp Judgment (1926) -- Part 2. Women and Panthers -- James Fenimore Cooper, A Panther Tale (1823) -- Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance (1860) -- Ambrose Bierce, The Eyes of the Panther (1897) -- Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016) -- Part 3. Fire and Ice -- Jack London, To Build a Fire (1908) -- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrants of the Barren (1908) -- Howard O'Hagan, Trees Are Lonely Company (1958) -- Wallace Stegner, The Wolfer (1959) -- Part 4. Accident and Injury -- David Quammen, Walking Out (1988) -- Pam Houston, Selway (1992) -- Gretel Ehrlich, Pond Time (1998) -- Annie Proulx, Testimony of the Donkey (2008) -- Part 5. Catch and Release -- Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River (1925) -- Robert Traver, The Intruder (1960) -- Melinda Moustakis, They Find the Drowned (2011) -- Wayne Karlin, Memorial Days (2020) -- Part 6. Hunter and Hunted -- Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886) -- Sigurd Olson, Trail's End (1933) -- William Faulkner, The Old People (1940) -- Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife (2001) -- Part 7. Myth and Magic -- L. Frank Baum, The King of the Polar Bears (1901) -- Ohayohok, A Human Kayak (1940) -- Jenny Leading Cloud, Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (1967) -- Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) -- Part 8. Past and Present -- Marjorie Pickthall, The Third Generation (1918) -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944) -- Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape (1989) -- Ron Carlson, Happiness (2014) -- Part 9. Endangerment and Extinction -- Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) -- T.C. Boyle, After the Plague (1999) -- Ted Chiang, The Great Silence (2015) -- Lydia Millet, Woodland (2019) -- Part 10. Climates and Futures -- Juan Rulfo, Luvina (1953) -- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Tamarisk Hunter (2006) -- adrienne maree brown, the river (2015) -- Tommy Orange, New Jesus (2019)
Control code
on1370248577
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xxi, 593 pages
Isbn
9780593318973
Lccn
2022017630
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustration
Label
Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild, edited with an introduction and commentary by Diana Fuss
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-586)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part 1. Suspense and Terror -- Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853) -- N.B. Young, Jr., Swamp Judgment (1926) -- Part 2. Women and Panthers -- James Fenimore Cooper, A Panther Tale (1823) -- Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance (1860) -- Ambrose Bierce, The Eyes of the Panther (1897) -- Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016) -- Part 3. Fire and Ice -- Jack London, To Build a Fire (1908) -- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrants of the Barren (1908) -- Howard O'Hagan, Trees Are Lonely Company (1958) -- Wallace Stegner, The Wolfer (1959) -- Part 4. Accident and Injury -- David Quammen, Walking Out (1988) -- Pam Houston, Selway (1992) -- Gretel Ehrlich, Pond Time (1998) -- Annie Proulx, Testimony of the Donkey (2008) -- Part 5. Catch and Release -- Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River (1925) -- Robert Traver, The Intruder (1960) -- Melinda Moustakis, They Find the Drowned (2011) -- Wayne Karlin, Memorial Days (2020) -- Part 6. Hunter and Hunted -- Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886) -- Sigurd Olson, Trail's End (1933) -- William Faulkner, The Old People (1940) -- Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife (2001) -- Part 7. Myth and Magic -- L. Frank Baum, The King of the Polar Bears (1901) -- Ohayohok, A Human Kayak (1940) -- Jenny Leading Cloud, Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (1967) -- Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) -- Part 8. Past and Present -- Marjorie Pickthall, The Third Generation (1918) -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944) -- Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape (1989) -- Ron Carlson, Happiness (2014) -- Part 9. Endangerment and Extinction -- Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) -- T.C. Boyle, After the Plague (1999) -- Ted Chiang, The Great Silence (2015) -- Lydia Millet, Woodland (2019) -- Part 10. Climates and Futures -- Juan Rulfo, Luvina (1953) -- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Tamarisk Hunter (2006) -- adrienne maree brown, the river (2015) -- Tommy Orange, New Jesus (2019)
Control code
on1370248577
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xxi, 593 pages
Isbn
9780593318973
Lccn
2022017630
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustration

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