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The classic 1939 collection of three short novels, including the famous title story set during the flu epidemic of 1918.From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers evoke such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This sharp collection of three short novels includes ?Pale Horse, Pale Rider, ? Porter's most celebrated story, where a young woman lies in a fever during the inf...

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The most thorough gathering of the great American writer's lively correspondence Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and ends with a 1979 letter dictated to an unnamed nursing-home atten...

The most thorough gathering of the great American writer's lively correspondence Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and ends with a 1979 letter dictated to an unnamed nursing-home atte...

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

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.

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.