Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories
An Anthology
Published on 30. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-59017-005-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this engagingly diverse anthology, critic and poet Randall Jarrell illuminates storytelling as a fundamental human impulse. Redefining the story form in this collection of world classics, he sets ballads, poems, parables, anecdotes, fairy tales, and legends alongside short stories by Anton Chekhov, Isak Dinesen, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Anne Porter, Leo Tolstoy, and others. Jarrells inimitable taste and innovative choices he includes both well-known works like Gogols The Nose and quirkier selections such as Chuang Tzus Five Anecdotes deepen the readers appreciation of the storytellers art and its place in the world. Jarrell is everywhere the man who has just read something he loves or hates.... And what unfailing taste he possessed. Leslie Fiedler
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59017-005-2 (9781590170052)
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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was born in Tennessee and graduated from Vanderbilt. A poet, novelist, translator, and critic as well as writer for children, Jarrell was a prolific author whose best-known works include the poems collected in The Woman at the Washington Zoo and The Lost World, the academic comedyPictures from an Institution, the children's story The Bat Poet, and Poetry and the Age, a group of essays. An influential critic who, as poetry reviewer for The Nation, helped to launch the careers of Robert Lowell and other contemporaries, Jarrell taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, where he was much revered. He died in a car accident in 1965.