9780307961884

0307961885

9781841596136

1841596132

"Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humor of Rudyard Kipling's "On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art" and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx's "The Wer-Trout" to the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean's "A River Runs Through It." Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassant's "Two Friends," Jimmy Carter's "Fishing with My Daddy," and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden. Some deal in reverence and romance, as in Roland Pertwee's "The River God," and some in adventure and the stuff of legend, as in Zane Grey's "The First Thousand-Pounder" and Ron Rash's "Their Ancient Glittering Eyes." There are works that confront head-on the heartbreaks and frustrations of the sport, from Thomas McGuane's meditation on long spells of inaction as the essence of fishing in "The Longest Silence" to Raymond Carver on a boy's deflated triumph in the gut-wrenching masterpiece "Nobody Said Anything." And alongside the works of literary giants are the memories of people both great and humble who have found meaning and fulfillment in fishing, from a former American president to a Scottish gamekeeper's daughter. Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, these stories cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life"-- Provided by publisher.

"An anthology of great fishing stories--both fiction and nonfiction--from a variety of times and places"-- Provided by publisher.

Everyman's pocket classics

Introduction

The salmon spirit: an Ulchi tale from Siberia / Nadyezhda Duvan

The Legend of Jiang Taigong / Anonymous

The dream carp (1769) / Ueda Akinari

The angler (1820) / Washington Irving

Two friends (1882) / Guy de Maupassant

Albion's daughter (1883) / Anton Chekhov

Fishy (1889) / Jerome K. Jerome

Dry-cow fishing as a fine art (1890) / Rudyard Kipling

I've got your tuna, sir (1909) / Charles Frederick Holder

The angler's end (1919) / Svend Fleuron

Landing of the record Tay salmon (1922) / Georgina Ballantine

Battle with a giant ray (1924) / F.A. Mitchell Hedges

The river god (1928) / Roland Pertwee

The first thousand-pounder (1930) / Zane Grey

from The Garden of Eden (1946-1961) / Ernest Hemingway

The children's bear (1946) / Roderick Haig-Brown

A little short of the record (1951) / Elizabeth Enright

Nobody said anything (1973) / Raymond Carver

On the divide (1974) / Nick Lyons

from A river runs through it (1976) / Norman Maclean

The wer-trout (1982) / Annie Proulx

Fishing with my daddy (1988) / Jimmy Carter

Abe Lincoln fished here (1990) / Lin Sutherland

Harvests (1994) / Ted Leeson

First native (1994) / David James Duncan

Waiting for a miracle: a Jew goes fishing (1999) / Marjorie Sandor

The longest silence (1999) / Thomas McGuane

Wash and tope (2006) / Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Their ancient, glittering eyes (2006) / Ron Rash.

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