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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne`s metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood`s Sherwood Forest (via Thomas Love Peacock`s Maid Marian) to Washington Irving`s `The Legend of Sleepy Hollow`. Here are forest-haunted fairy tales both classic (the Brothers Grimm) and inventively retold (Angela Carter). There is room in these woods for comedy as well as terror, in Stella Gibbons`s Cold Comfort Farm, and Alexander McCall Smith`s `Head Tree`. Notable writers from around the world contribute arboreal fiction-from South Africa, Finland, France, Zimbabwe, Russia, Martinique, and India, as well as Britain, Ireland, Canada and America. From Daphne du Maurier`s `The Apple Tree` to R. K. Narayan`s `Under the Banyan Tree`, the sheer range of stories in these pages will leave readers refreshed and dazzled.

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