{"product_id":"river-stories","title":"River Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames 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.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46610475253929,"sku":"PHBK-9798217007172","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_b86fde83-a8d8-4eee-be4a-0b1558d9ee5c.jpg?v=1764864807","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/river-stories","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}