The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter, 1890-1980

Book - 1979

Collection of short stories by Katherine Anne Porter featuring four stories not available elsewhere in book form.

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Subjects
Genres
Short stories
Fiction
Published
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1979, ©1969.
Language
English
Main Author
Katherine Anne Porter, 1890-1980 (-)
Edition
1st Harvest/HBJ ed
Physical Description
viii, 495 pages ; 21 cm
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1966.
ISBN
9780156188760
  • The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Go Little Book. Flowering Judas and other stories. Maria Concepción
  • Virgin Violeta
  • The martyr
  • Magic
  • Rope
  • He
  • Theft
  • That tree
  • The jilting of Granny Weatherall
  • Flowering Judas
  • The cracked looking-glass
  • Hacienda
  • Pale horse, pale rider. Old mortality
  • Noon wine
  • Pale horse, pale rider
  • The leaning tower and other stories. The old order. The source
  • The journey
  • The witness
  • The circus
  • The last leaf
  • The fig tree
  • The grave
  • The downward path to wisdom
  • A day's work
  • Holiday
  • The leaning tower.
  • Essays, reviews, and other writings. "I needed both ..."
  • Critical. The days before
  • Reflections on Willa Cather. A note on The Troll Garden
  • Gertrude Stein: three views. "Everybody is a real one"
  • Second Wind
  • The wooden umbrella
  • "It is hard to stand in the middle"
  • Eudora Welty and A Curtain of Green
  • The Winged skull
  • On a criticism of Thomas Hardy
  • E.M. Forster
  • Virginia Woolf
  • D.H. Lawrence. Quetzalcoatl
  • A wreath for the gamekeeper
  • "The laughing heat of the sun"
  • The art of Katherine Mansfield
  • The hundredth role
  • Dylan Thomas. "A death of days ..."
  • -"A fever chart ..."
  • "In the morning of the poet ..."
  • A most lively genius
  • Orpheus in Purgatory
  • In memoriam. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
  • James Joyce (1882-1941)
  • Sylvia Beach (1887-1962)
  • Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).
  • Personal and particular. On writing. My first speech
  • "I must write from memory ..."
  • No plot, my dear, no story
  • "Writing cannot be taught ..."
  • The situation of the writer. The situation in American writing
  • Transplanted writers
  • The international exchange of writers
  • The author on her work. No masters or teachers
  • On "Flowering Judas"
  • "The only reality ..."
  • "Noon Wine": the sources
  • Notes on the Texas I remember
  • Portrait: Old South
  • A Christmas story
  • Audubon's happy land
  • The flower of flowers
  • A note on Pierre-Joseph Redouré
  • A house of my own
  • The necessary enemy
  • "Marriage is belonging"
  • A defense of Circe
  • St. Augustine and the bullfight
  • Act of faith: 4 July 1942
  • The future is now
  • The never-ending wrong.
  • Mexican. Why I write about Mexico
  • Reports from Mexico City, 1920-1922. The new man and the new order
  • The Fiesta of Guadalupe
  • The funeral of General Benjamin Hill
  • Children of Xochitl
  • The Mexican trinity
  • Where presidents have no friends
  • In a Mexican patio
  • Leaving the Petate
  • The charmed life
  • Corridos
  • Sor Juana: a portrait of the poet
  • Notes on the life and death of a hero
  • A Mexican chronicle, 1920-1943. Blasco Ibanez on "Mexico in Revolution"
  • Paternalism and the Mexican problem
  • La Conquistadora
  • ¡Ay, Que chamaco!
  • Old gods and new messiahs
  • Diego Rivera. These pictures must be seen
  • Rivera's personal revolution
  • Parvenu
  • History on the wing
  • thirty long years of revolution
  • Autobiographical. About the author
  • The land that is nowhere.
Review by Booklist Review

American. 1890-1980. Some of the most lucid, well-thought-out (but not mannered) prose to be enjoyed anywhere can be found in this Texan's stories, often about the long-dead Old South.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.