Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was a renowned American author of short stories and essays. Best known for her short story collections and the novel Ship of Fools,  she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal Award for Fiction. Klappentext This volume brings together the collections "Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; " and "The Leaning Tower" as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Zusammenfassung The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume. From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her award-winning short stories, including “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” where a young woman lies in a fever during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war, and “Noon Wine,” a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Katherine Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
• Editore: Harvest Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.1979
• EAN: 9780156188760
• ISBN: 978-0-15-618876-0
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 30 mm
• Serie: Harvest/HBJ Book; Harvest/HBJ Book
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION: Historical / World War I, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Classics, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, LITERATURE: LITERARY COLLECTIONS, LITERATURE: SHORT STORIES, LITERATURE: GREAT SHORT WORKS