Overview
The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild.
From the nineteenth centuryās Washington Irving (āRip Van Winkleā) to the twenty-first centuryās Ted Chiang (āThe Great Silenceā)āa panoramic view of wilderness fiction, from Gothic tales of mystery and suspense (āThe Heroic Slaveā by Frederick Douglass), to tales of danger and survival (āWalking Outā by David Quammen); from modern tales of retreat and solitude (āHappinessā by Ron Carlson), to never-before-told tales of our new realityāof environment and extinction (āthe riverā by adrienne maree brown): these are stories that reveal the many ways in which the American literary landscape has shapedāand is shaped byāour conceptions of the wild.Ā
Diana Fuss nimbly shows, in her introductory text and commentary throughout, the development of the wilderness story, from its emergence in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne (āYoung Goodman Brownā) and James Fenimore Cooper (āA Panther Taleā), to the height of its popularity in the stories of Jack London (āTo Build a Fireā), to the environmentally conscious writing of T. C. Boyle (āAfter the Plagueā) and Karen Russell (āSt. Lucyās Home for Girls Raised by Wolvesā).
Among those whose work appears in the collection: Wallace Stegner, Annie Proulx, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, L. Frank Baum, Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Ray Bradbury.
This book title, Wilderness Tales (Forty Stories of the North American Wild), ISBN: 9780593318973, by Diana Fuss, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (February 28, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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