Fishing Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) weavers Wise Blood (1952) and The

Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960)

and Drawn to Nature

An eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species

whose drawings experiment with surreal and fantastical architecture

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children

Fishing Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) weavers Wise Blood (1952) and TheFishing 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