Manzanares (river) it flows near the dormitory town of Arganda del Rey, ending its journey. The river Manzanares, although small and relatively unimportant geographically, has had a great historical importance due to its close relation to the city of Madrid. The city was founded by the Moors as a citadel overlooking the river in the ninth century. The river is also featured in many paintings of the late 18th to early 19th-century painter Francisco de Goya, which show traditionally dressed "Madrileños" in activities like dancing or having picnics next to the river. The Manzanares was also an important defence line for the
A River Runs Through It (novel) still in print a hardcover edition issued in Chicago by the University of Chicago Press in 1989 with . The collection of short stories with the novella, "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories" is issued as a paperback by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 with . The small anthology contains two other stories, also partly autobiographical and which precede the events of "River": "Logging and Pimping and 'Your pal, Jim'" and "USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky". During 1977 the Pulitzer Prize committee for fiction (aka "fiction jury") recommended "A