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 influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war. Also included is "Noon Wine," a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas, and "Old Mortality," a story of discovering family truths and self-discovery.&nbsp;Pale Horse, Pale Rider unites the finest work from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

Literature & Fiction

PORTER, Katherine Anne

Literary

Mariner Books Classics

. 8vo pp. 496 Rilegato tela (cloth) Sovracoperta mancante (No dust jacket) Molto Buono (Very Good) I racconti della Porter riflettono la sua profonda conoscenza della vita meridionale e delle tradizioni e mentalità delle antiche famiglie del Sud degli Stati Uniti. Con questa raccolta l'Autrice vinse il Premio Pulitzer e il National Book Award nel 1966.

Collected Stories.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harcourt

A collection of stories by the reknown author including such titles as "Maria Concepcion," "Virgin Violeta," "The martyr," "Flowering Judas," and "The cracked looking-glass"

Flowering Judas and Other Stories (H B J MODERN CLASSIC)

World Literature

Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.

Pale horse, pale rider: Three short novels

Contemporary

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

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

Pale Horse, Pale Rider (H B J MODERN CLASSIC)

United States

Mariner Books

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.

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

HARCOURT, BRACE

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.

The Old Order: Stories of the South

This volume brings together twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appeared in Porter's collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Both fiction and essays are covered. All these pieces belong to Porter's apprenticeship as a creative writer. Thus, they offer new insights into her artistic development and her relationship with Mexico, a place that, as she later said, "influenced everything I did afterward."

Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

In 1907, a seventeen-year-old Scotch-Irish girl named Mae Munro Watkins met nineteen-year-old Tiam Hock Franking of Amoy, China, while attending high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their growing love intensified later while both were students at the University of Michigan, where Mae studied Latin and German and Tiam prepared for a career in international law. Because of the legal and social restrictions in the early 1900s, interracial relationships such as theirs were bitterly and publicly discouraged. Nevertheless, despite opposition to their relationship from both their families, Mae and Tiam married and later moved to China. There Mae raised three children, taught college English, and helped Tiam with his own teaching and legal work. And, by her own conscious choice, Mae also succeeded in becoming a proper Chinese wife and daughter-in-law. Working from interviews with Mae Franking and from material contained in Franking's original manuscript, Katherine Anne Porter ghostwrote Mae's story in 1920 for Asia: The American Magazine on the Orient. Asia published My Chinese Marriage as a four-part series, and subsequently Duffield and Company published it unchanged in book form. Mae Franking's original manuscript was lost, so there can be no direct comparison between Franking's manuscript and Porter's work. This annotated edition contains the full text of My Chinese Marriage as it appeared in Asia. In addition, the Franking's granddaughter, Holly Franking, provides a narrative account of Mae's life, as well as private letters and contemporary newspaper clippings (the marriage was deplored by racist editors in Ann Arbor and Detroit). This previously unavailable material will enable Katherine Anne Porter scholars to assess her stylistic and fictional contributions to the text.

Mae Franking's My Chinese Marriage: An Annotated Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Univ of Texas Pr

This volume brings together twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appeared in Porter's collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Both fiction and essays are covered. All these pieces belong to Porter's apprenticeship as a creative writer. Thus, they offer new insights into her artistic development and her relationship with Mexico, a place that, as she later said, "influenced everything I did afterward."

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

Collected Stories.

Flowering Judas and Other Stories (H B J MODERN CLASSIC)

Pale horse, pale rider: Three short novels

Pale Horse, Pale Rider (H B J MODERN CLASSIC)

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

The Old Order: Stories of the South

Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

Mae Franking's My Chinese Marriage: An Annotated Edition

Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter