SOUTHERN CLASSICS LIBRARY: KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: COLLECTED STORIES: FRANKLIN

Description: Southern Classics Library leather edition of "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter," a Limited edition, one of the SOUTHERN CLASSICS LIBRARY series, published by Oxmoor House in 1976. Bound in blue leather, the book has ivory French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a hubbed spine, a satin book marker, gold gilding to the end leaves--- in FINE condition. Katherine Anne Porter, who lived from 1890- 1980, was an award-winning novelist and writer of short stories. This collection of short works received much critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. This volume includes "Flowering Judas Stories" "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," "Maria Concepcion," "Old Mortality," "Noon Wine," "The Matyr," "Theft," "Magic," "Rope," "Virgin Violeta," "That Tree," "The Cracked Looking-Glass," "Hacienda," "Virgin Violeta," "The Leaning Tower and Other Stories," and "The Downward Path to Wisdom," "A Day's Work," "Old Mortality," "He," "Holiday," "The Witness," "The Circus," "The Grave," "The Fig Tree," "The Journey," "The Old Order," "The Leaning Tower," and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"---Sick in bed, Granny Weatherall is being visited by Doctor Harry, a man whom she considers little more than a child. Saying there is nothing wrong with her, Granny orders the doctor to leave. He speaks in a condescending tone to her, even after she snaps at him. Granny reminds him that she’s survived more serious sicknesses before he was even born. Closing her eyes, Granny feels as if she is in a hammock. She hears the doctor and one of her daughters, Cornelia, talking about Granny’s illness. It annoys her that they are talking about her when she is within earshot. Cornelia’s goodness also irritates Granny, who says aloud that she would enjoy spanking Cornelia. The historian Alfred Crosby considered "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" to be such an exceptional depiction of the suffering caused by the influenza that he dedicated his book about the 1918 epidemic to Porter. Robert Penn Warren said: "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" was “at the top level, you know, in that collection of the world’s short novels.” The book also includes the stories "Noon Wine", "Maria Concepcion," "Virgin Violets," "The Matyr," 'Magic," "Rope," "He," "Theft," "That Tree," "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," "Flowering Judas," "The Cracked Looking-Glass," and "Old Mortality." The title is Biblical, coming from Revelations 6:1-8. There the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were respectively: Conquest on a white horse; War on a red horse; Famine on a black horse; and Death mounted on a pale horse. 495 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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