Selected and introduced by Sarah Churchwell, these 12 short stories by Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) include the three long tales published as Pale Horse, Pale Rider in 1937 and widely considered to be her masterpiece: 'Old Mortality', 'Noon Wine' and 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider'.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Literature & Fiction

Katherine Anne Porter

Literary

Penguin??Books

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Contemporary

Harvest Books

The Situation Of The Story

Joyce Carol Oates

Henry, James

DORIS LESSING

Shirley Jackson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Zora Neale Hurston

Sarah Orne Jewett

RAYMOND CARVER

Estela Portillo Trambley

JOHN UPDIKE

Louise Erdrich

JOHN CHEEVER

EUDORA WELTY

BERNARD MALAMUD

Bharati, Mukherjee

Anna Lee Walters

John Edgar Wideman

Diana Young

George P. Garrett

Ann Beattie

Toni Cade Bambara

Willa, Cather

Lee K. Abbott

Conrad, Aiken

Charles, Johnson

GLORIA NAYLOR

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Anton Pavloviç Çehov

Franz, Kafka

David Herbert, Lawrence

James, Joyce

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Edith, Wharton

Virginia, Woolf

Nathaniel, Hawthorne

Amy, Tan

Mark, Twain

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HERMAN, MELVILLE

Stephen, Crane

Elizabeth Spencer

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William Goyen

TRUMAN CAPOTE

William, Faulkner

Ernest, Hemingway

Ellen Wilbur

REGINALD McKNlGHT

Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin

Allen Barnett

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

The problems of human love and isolation and man's search for truth and dignity are portrayed in an anthology of short fiction

Six Great Modern Short Novels

Nickolay Gogol

Glenway Wescott

United States

Laurel

First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the authorâ€™s reputation as a master of short fiction.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

The New American Library, Inc.

Stories by William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, John Steinbeck, and Sinclair Lewis are included in this collection of short works of American fiction

Twenty Grand: Great American Short Stories

Stephen Vincent Benét

IRWIN SHAW

Martha Foley

Sinclair, Lewis

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George Milburn

Ruth Suckow

Children's Books

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"Most good stories are about the interior of our lives, but Katherine Anne Porter's stories take place there," said Eudora Welty. "They show surface only at her choosing." Pale Horse, Pale Rider comprises three of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's short novels or long stories, as Porter--who didn't hold with the term "novella"--called her pieces. In the masterly "Noon Wine," set on a Texas farm circa 1900, she offers an unforgettable study of evil. According to Reynolds Price the tale "can stand shoulder to shoulder with anything in Tolstoy or Chekhov." Both "Old Mortality" and the title story center on Porter's fictional counterpart, Miranda: a resilient Southern heroine who, as Mary Gordon observed, is in "the precarious position of a woman who must earn her way with no one behind her to break her fall." "Many of Katherine Anne Porter's stories are unsurpassed in modern fiction," said Robert Penn Warren. "Miss Porter has the power that Chekhov or Frost or Ibsen, or sometimes Pound, has, the power to make the common thing glow with an Eden-like innocence." And The Saturday Review stated, "Porter moves in the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James." --The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editons of impor-tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.--With an Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Modern Library)

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Gringos in Mexico: An Anthology

William Cullen Bryant

Charles Flandrau

William Spratling

Edna, Ferber

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Jack, London

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TCU Press

The Masters Collection

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Audio Partners

Flowering Judas and Other Stories

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

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