| Nature Stories Contributor(s): Renard, Jules (Author), Parmée, Douglas (Translator), Bonnard, Pierre (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1590173643 ISBN-13: 9781590173640 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Animals - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010041770 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.12" W x 7.98" (0.47 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters such as the weasel, the dragonfly, snakes of several sorts, and even a whale, not to mention ants in their seeming infinitude and a single humble potato--all these and more are the subjects of what may well be the most deft and delightful book of literary miniatures ever written. In Jules Renard's world, plants and animals not only feel but speak (one species, the swallow, appears to write Hebrew), and yet, for all the anthropomorphic wit and whimsy the author indulges in, they guard their mystery too. Sly, funny, and touching, Nature Stories, here beautifully rendered into English by Douglas Parm e and accompanied by the wonderful ink-brush images of Pierre Bonnard with which the book was originally published, is a literary classic of inexhaustible freshness. |