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Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories: An Anthology (New York Review Books Classics) [Paperback]

Randall Jarrell (Editor)

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Book Description

Publication Date: May 2002 | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin—this is what the poet and critic Randall Jarrell set out to illuminate in this extraordinary book. Here Jarrell presents ballads, parables, anecdotes, and legends along with some of the finest work of Chekhov, Babel, Elizabeth Bowen, Isak Dinesen, Kafka, Peter Taylor, and Katherine Anne Porter. This wonderful anthology, with its celebrated introductory essay, enlarges and deepens our perception of the storyteller's art and its central place in the world of our feelings.

Contents
RANDALL JARRELL: Introduction
FRANZ KAFKA: A Country Doctor
ANTON CHEKHOV: Gusev
RAINER MARIA RILKE: The Wrecked Houses; The Big Thing
ROBERT FROST: The Witch of Coös
GIOVANNI VERGA: La Lupa
NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Nose
ELIZABETH BOWEN: Her Table Spread
LUDWIG TIECK: Fair Eckbert
BERTOLT BRECHT: Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar
LEO TOLSTOY: The Three Hermits
PETER TAYLOR: What You Hear from 'Em?
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: The Fir Tree
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: He
ANONYMOUS: The Red King and the Witch
ANTON CHEKHOV: Rothschild's Fiddle
THE BROTHERS GRIMM: Cat and Mouse in Partnership
E. M. FORSTER: The Story of the Siren
THE BOOK OF JONAH
FRANZ KAFKA: The Bucket-Rider
SAINT-SIMON: The Death of Monseigneur
ISAAC BABEL: Awakening
CHUANG T'ZU: Five Anecdotes
HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL: A Tale of the Cavalry
WILLIAM BLAKE: The Mental Traveller
D. H. LAWRENCE: Samson and Delilah
LEO TOLSTOY: The Porcelain Doll
IVAN TURGENEV: Byezhin Prairie
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage
FRANK O'CONNOR: Peasants
ISAK DINESEN: Sorrow-Acre

Product details

  • Paperback: 370 pages
  • Publisher: New York Review of Books; Reprint edition (May 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590170059
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590170052
  • Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.2 x 20.3 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 303,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars where dreams begin 7 Aug 2007
By wordtron - Published on Amazon.com
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this is a superb anthology of stories, poems, fables and more collected by poet/novelist randall jarrell to illuminate the notion of "storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin..." authors include kafka, chekhov, rilke, robert frost, gogol, elizabeth bowen, brecht, peter taylor, hans christian anderson, the book of jonah, anonymous, the brothers grimm, isaac babel, chuang t'zu, blake, tolstoy, turgenev, dinesen, among others. reading this reaffirms why i love to read, and puts in to relief that narrative timelessness so often missing in contemporary fiction. strange and dreamy, each story swallows you whole. i've read this twice and will return again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best short story anthologies available 8 Jun 2010
By C. Randall Curb - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
For some years, this has been one of my favorite collections of miscellaneous short stories. The variety is impressive, and the editorship by Randall Jarrell is delightfully idiosyncratic and eclectic. I like the fact that he includes a few fairy tales and even the Biblical Book of Jonah, in addition to modern masters of the story form like Isak Dinesen and Frank O'Connor. Note that there are not many American or English short stories, however. Just for the record, the contents of the collection are: RANDALL JARRELL: Introduction;FRANZ KAFKA: A Country Doctor; ANTON CHEKHOV: Gusev;RAINER MARIA RILKE: The Wrecked Houses; The Big Thing; ROBERT FROST: The Witch of Co̦s; GIOVANNI VERGA: La Lupa; NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Nose; ELIZABETH BOWEN: Her Table Spread; LUDWIG TIECK: Fair Eckbert; BERTOLT BRECHT: Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar; LEO TOLSTOY: The Three Hermits; PETER TAYLOR: What You Hear from `Em?; HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: The Fir Tree; KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: He; ANONYMOUS: The Red King and the Witch; ANTON CHEKHOV: Rothschild's Fiddle; BROTHERS GRIMM: Cat and Mouse in Partnership; E. M. FORSTER: The Story of the Siren; THE BOOK OF JONAH; FRANZ KAFKA: The Bucket-Rider; SAINT-SIMON: The Death of Monseigneur; ISAAC BABEL: Awakening; CHUANG T'ZU: Five Anecdotes; HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL: A Tale of the Cavalry;
WILLIAM BLAKE: The Mental Traveller; D. H. LAWRENCE: Samson and Delilah; LEO TOLSTOY: The Porcelain Doll; IVAN TURGENEV: Byezhin Prairie; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage; FRANK O'CONNOR: Peasants; ISAK DINESEN: Sorrow-Acre.
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