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• The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  Porter’s reputation as one of americanca’s most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
  
  
   

• Ship of Fools

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Bremerhaven, Germany. The passenger list is long and portentous, and includes a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests, and a host of others. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant now as they were when the novel first appeared in 1962.
  
   

• Pale Horse, Pale Rider

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author’s reputation as a master of short fiction.
  
  
   

• The Old Order: Stories of the South

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  A number of Porter’s finest stories have their setting in the South at the turn of the century. The Old Order brings these together in a single volume, including six stories from The Leaning Tower, three stories from Flowering Judas, and the short novel “Old Mortality” from Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
  
  
   

• Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  Novelist, short-story writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Katherine Anne Porter is one of America’s most respected and enduring literary figures. Upon her death in 1980 at the age of ninety, she left behind thousands of letters, from which Isabel Bayley, Porter’s close friend for over twenty-five years and her literary archivist, selected the best.
  
   

• Flowering Judas and Other Stories (H B J Modern Classic)

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  As critical and popular interest in Katherine Anne Porter's writing grows, readers naturally wish to see more of her work. This volume brings together twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appeared in her collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Both fiction and essays are covered. The fiction includes the published stories "The Shattered Star," "The Faithful Princess," "The Magic Ear Ring," "The Adventures of Hadji," and the first version of "Hacienda," along with six previously unpublished stories drawn from Porter's papers. The essays include her monograph Outline of Mexican Popular Arts and Crafts, her first two essays on Mexican politics, her first two book reviews, and several literary sketches with Mexican themes. All these pieces belong to Porter's apprenticeship as a creative writer. Thus, they offer new insights into her artistic development and her relationship with Mexico, a place that, as she later said, "influenced everything I did afterward."
  
   

• A Christmas story

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• Collected Short Stories (Virago Modern Classics)

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• COLLECTED WRITINGS PORTER PA

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• Cuentos Completos/ The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• A Curtain of Green

  Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• Defense of Circle

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  This first edition is limited to 1700 copies privately printed for the friends of the author and her publishers as a New Year's greeting.
  
   

• Flowering Judas (Women Writers)

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  Katherine Anne Porter often spoke of her story "Flowering Judas" as the tale she liked best of all her stories because it came the nearest to what she meant it to be. It is the story of Laura, and idealistic woman who travels to Mexico from Arizona at the age of twenty-two to assist the Obregon Revolution. This casebook on "Flowering Judas" addresses Porter's ambivalence surround her roles as woman and artist and also attests to the profound influence of Mexico upon her work. Readers of this early tale will not be surprised to learn that although Porter was a practicing feminist in her life and her work, she actually eschewed the feminist label. Virginia Spencer Carr brings her own sharply focused biographer's eye to the introduction, further illuminating the story and the superb critical essays that it provokes. The casebook includes the authoritative text of the story itself, Porter's own statement regarding the genesis of this highly acclaimed work, an important interview, a collection of significant essays on "Flowering Judas" and the historical, cultural, and personal milieu from which the tale evolved, a bibliography, and a chronology of Porter's life and work. The contributors are Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., Leon Gottfied, David Madden, Jane Krause DeMouy, Barbara Thompson, Darlene Harbour Unrue, Thomas F. Walsh, and Ray B. West, Jr. Virginia Spencer Carr is a professor of English at Georgia State University. She is the author of The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Understanding Carson McCullers, and Dos Passos, A Life. A volume in the Rutgers series, Women Writers: Texts and Contexts, edited by Thomas L. Erskine and Connie L. Richards.
  
   

• Great Tales of the Deep South

  
  
   

• The old order;: Stories of the South, from Flowering Judas, Pale horse, pale rider, and The leaning tower (A Harvest book, HB 6)

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series)

  
  Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
  
   

• The Leaning Tower and Other Stories

  Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   

• The Masters Collection

  James Joyce

  
  
   

• Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: Containing All of A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories, and The Wide Net and Other Stories

  Eudora Welty

  
  Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. I've stayed in one place,' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination.' Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. Linking them all is Welty's remarkable ear for the language and point of view of the South. 'She's a lot smarter than her cousins in Beula,' someone remarks about a reputed suicide in one story. 'Especially Edna Earle, that never did get to be what you'd call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the 'c' got through the 'I' in a Coca-Cola sign."
  
  The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque.