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escape
forthcoming
ghost stories
hiking
labyrinth
literary fiction
memory
modern fiction
short stories
sleepwalking
stories
trekking
wild and free nature
Product details
- ISBN 9781841596426
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 117 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Everyman
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The act of walking inspires a dizzying variety of stories, from Bill Bryson's comic A Walk in the Woods to M. R. James's tale of a ghost cursed to wander forever, and from the thrilling true account of a woman who escaped from an Auschwitz death march to a dreamy tale by Anais Nin about wandering in the labyrinth of memory. Here are comic stories and love stories, moments of adventure and of observation, of sleepwalking and of mental travelling, of strolling and of hiking, all set into glorious motion by a diverse array of great writers past and present.
Fiona Stafford (Anthology Editor)
FIONA STAFFORD is a professor of English literature at Oxford University. The author of many books, including a biography of Jane Austen, she also wrote and presented the highly acclaimed "The Meaning of Trees" for BBC Radio 3's The Essay. Her book The Long, Long Life of Trees, published by Yale University Press in 2017, was a Sunday Times Nature Book of the
Year, and she is the editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Classic anthology Stories of Trees, Woods, and the Forest.
