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Lively literary miniatures exploring nature's whimsy.

If nature's theater enchants you, 'Nature Stories' by Jules Renard is a compendium you'd adore. Each miniature is a vignette that breathes life into the flora and fauna, revealing a world where critters and greenery speak and feel, yet remain shrouded in enigma. Renard's craft infuses anthropomorphic charm without stripping away the untamed spirit of the natural world. It's a delight for both literary connoisseurs and nature lovers.

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Nature Stories

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ISBN: 9781590173640
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Date of Publication: 2010-12-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Poetry
Goodreads rating: 3.77
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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 Parmée 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.
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Lively literary miniatures exploring nature's whimsy.

If nature's theater enchants you, 'Nature Stories' by Jules Renard is a compendium you'd adore. Each miniature is a vignette that breathes life into the flora and fauna, revealing a world where critters and greenery speak and feel, yet remain shrouded in enigma. Renard's craft infuses anthropomorphic charm without stripping away the untamed spirit of the natural world. It's a delight for both literary connoisseurs and nature lovers.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.