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Featuring a collection of twenty-nine pieces that covers both fiction and essays, this title offers insights into the author's artistic development and her relationship with Mexico.

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.

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The Library of America reprints the landmark volume of stories that won Porter both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and pairs the collection with a completely new selection from Porter's long-out-of-print short prose.

Collectively the book reviews reveal Porter's opinions on topics ranging from the nature of art and the place of the artist in politics and society to feminism and the role of female artists. Particularly evident in the reviews are the critical principles that guided her own work as well as her judgments of the works of other writers.

The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. 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 frailt...

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.