{"product_id":"9781590175682","title":"Nature Stories","description":"The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the  house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large  in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the  cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes  alarming characters such as the weasel, the dragonfly, snakes of several  sorts, and even a whale, not to mention ants in their seeming  infinitude and a single humble potato—all these and more are the  subjects of what may well be the most deft and delightful book of  literary miniatures ever written. In Jules Renard’s world, plants and  animals not only feel but speak (one species, the swallow, appears to  write Hebrew), and yet, for all the anthropomorphic wit and whimsy the  author indulges in, they guard their mystery too. Sly, funny, and  touching, \u003ci\u003eNature Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, here beautifully rendered into English  by Douglas Parmée and accompanied by the wonderful ink-brush images of  Pierre Bonnard with which the book was originally published, is a  literary classic of inexhaustible freshness.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137944535280,"sku":"9781590175682","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175682_p0.jpg?v=1763809378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175682","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}