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Author:

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.

Title:

Collected stories and other writings / Katherine Anne Porter.

Publisher:

Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 1093 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, American.
Essays, American.

Other Authors:

Unrue, Darlene Harbour.

Other Titles:

Selections. 2008

Notes:

Darlene Harbour Unrue is the editor of the this volume. -- Prelim. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Pale horse, pale rider. Flowering Judas and other stories. María 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 collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter. The grave. The old order. The source -- The journey -- The witness -- The circus -- The last leaf -- The fig tree -- The grave.
The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter. The leaning tower. The downward path to wisdom -- A day's work -- Holiday -- The leaning tower.
Essays, reviews, and other writings. I needed both--.
Critical. Critical. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964). 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 wingèd 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. Personal and particular. Afterword. 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 Redouté -- 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. Afterword.
Mexican. Mexican. Thirty long years of revolution. 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. Autobiographical. The land that is nowhere. The land that is nowhere.

Series:

The Library of America ; 186

ISBN:

1598530291
9781598530292

LCCN:

2008927625

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)