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PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.

ISBN-101598530291

ISBN-139781598530292

eBay Product ID (ePID)66073058

Product Key Features

Book TitleKatherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Loa #186)

Number of Pages1100 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary, American / General, Essays

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections

AuthorKatherine Anne Porter

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight25.3 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-927625

Reviews"Katherine Anne Porter's stories have rightly had the highest reputation in America since they first appeared in the early Thirties. . . . Porter's singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life." --V. S. Pritchett, â€œKatherine Anne Porterâ€™s stories have rightly had the highest reputation in America since they first appeared in the early Thirties. . . . Porterâ€™s singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life.â€� â€”V. S. Pritchett, Katherine Anne Porter’s stories have rightly had the highest reputation in America since they first appeared in the early Thirties. . . . Porter’s singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life.” —V. S. Pritchett

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

SynopsisEudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter ?writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.' Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than thirty, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, ?many are unsurpassed in modern fiction, ? and when gathered in one volume in 1965 they won their author both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Library of America now reprints that landmark volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter , and pairs it with a completely new selection from Porter's long-out-of-print short prose. Expanding the contents of her 1952 collection The Days Before to include both early journalism and major pieces from her final three decades, the prose works collected here are grouped in four parts: critical essays on writers she loved and learned from, including James, Cather, Lawrence, and Colette; personal essays and speeches on such topics as the craft of writing, her own work, women in myth and in history, and American politics; essays and reports on Mexican life, letters, and revolution; and two previously uncollected forays into autobiography. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries., The Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning volume of writings from the author of Pale Horse, Pale Rider --now combined with little-known works of prose for the very first time Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter "writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory." Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than thirty, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, "many are unsurpassed in modern fiction." The Library of America now reprints the landmark 1965 volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter --which features tales like "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" and "Flowering Judas"--and pairs it with a completely new selection from Porter's long-out-of-print short prose. Expanding the contents of her 1952 collection The Days Before to include both early journalism and major pieces from her final three decades, the prose works collected here are grouped in four parts: critical essays on writers she loved and learned from, including James, Cather, Lawrence, and Colette; personal essays and speeches on such topics as the craft of writing, her own work, women in myth and in history, and American politics; essays and reports on Mexican life, letters, and revolution; and two previously uncollected forays into autobiography. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

LC Classification NumberPS3531.O752A6 2008