The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter.

Author

Katherine Anne Porter

Call Number

• FICTION PORT (CEN)

Edition

[1st American ed.]

Publication Information

Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., [1965]

Physical Description

viii, 495 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

Set in Porter's native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, these are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise.

Contents

• Maria Concepción
• Virgin Violeta
• The martyr
• Magic
• Rope
• He
• Theft
• That tree
• The jilting of Granny Weatherall
• Flowering Judas
• The cracked looking-glass
• Hacienda
• Old mortality
• Noon wine
• Pale horse, pale rider
• 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.