{"product_id":"river-stories-9798217007172","title":"River Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi--the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRiver 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 \"The 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in the Willows\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217007172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352","brand":"Henry Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187064561845,"sku":"9798217007172","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dbfc7d29-843b-4d55-87eb-d035dca370d1.jpg?v=1742271257","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/river-stories-9798217007172","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}