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Nature fiction


  • Fiction that depicts the natural world and its phenomena. For fiction that depicts the interconnectedness of the human and natural worlds, and especially the impact of human activities on nature, see [Ecofiction.]
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    • found: Work cat.: Domico, T. The last thylacine, 2005:p. 4 of cover (Fiction: Outdoor Adventure/Nature)
    • found: Pleasures of nature : a literary anthology, 2016:cover flap (anthology of nature writing; selections range from scientific observations to poetry, from diary entry to novel extract) p. 31 (extract from Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre) p. 87 (extract from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick) p. 104 (extract from Herman Melville's novel Mardi, and a voyage thither) p. 112 (extract from Thomas Hardy's novel The return of the native) p. 144 (extract from Edmund Gosse's novel Father and son) p. 148 (extract from Grey Owl's children's novel The adventures of Sajo and her beaver people) p. 181 (extract from Lewis Carroll's Through the looking glass and what Alice found there)
    • found: The islands and the sea : five centuries of nature writing from the Caribbean, 1991:p. ix (the first comprehensive anthology of nature writing in the Caribbean from 1492 to the present; the genres of poetry and of fiction, which include some of the finest writing about nature in Caribbean literature, are also represented here)
    • found: In our nature : stories of wildness, 2002:p. 11 (Most of the fourteen stories gathered together here are written by writers who aren't known for being overtly environmentally oriented. The write about wildness because they write about human nature; one doesn't exist without the other; their stories vary in setting, character, and voice, but they share an intensity of feeling and implicit questioning of our perception of ourselves as the planet's dominant species; characters both fear and cherish wildness, yet many become aware of their feelings for nature only after witnessing the death of a much-admired animal or suffering the loss of a favorite wild place or way of life) p. 4 of cover (short stories ... evoke our perception of nature and the conflict between wildness and civilization within each of us)
    • found: Beyond nature writing, 2001:p. 165 (Mary Wilkins Freeman's nature fiction; human relationship with the rest of nature becomes the theme)
    • found: Williamson, H. Collected nature stories, 1970.
    • found: Tisdall, C. Australian nature stories for children, 1904.
    • found: Blackwood, A. Pan's garden : a volume of nature stories, 1971.
    • found: LCSH, Oct. 20, 2015(Nature stories. UF Natural history--Fiction; Natural history--Juvenile fiction; Nature--Fiction; Nature--Juvenile fiction. BT Fiction)
  • General Notes

    • Fiction that depicts the natural world and its phenomena. For fiction that depicts the interconnectedness of the human and natural worlds, and especially the impact of human activities on nature, see [Ecofiction.]
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    • Note under [Ecofiction]
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    • 2015-10-20: new
    • 2017-05-15: revised
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