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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. Pale Horse, Pale Rider unites the finest work from
one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and
sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the
same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the
period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of
archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social
structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well
as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those
groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities
dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping
many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the
Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary
state formation and the organization and operation of government,
the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first
stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the
second millennium BCE.
In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and
sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the
same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the
period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of
archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social
structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well
as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those
groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities
dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping
many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the
Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary
state formation and the organization and operation of government,
the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first
stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the
second millennium BCE.
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.
From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have
evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as
powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers
together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction,
including 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider', where a young woman lies in a
fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories
mingling with fears for her fiance on his way to war, and 'Noon
Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy
farm in Texas. In all of the compelling stories collected here,
harsh and tragic truths are expressed in prose both brilliant and
precise.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Occupying a space in-between conventional scholarship and
imaginative storytelling, The University in Crumbs: A Register of
Things Seen and Heard is an experimental work that dramatizes the
everyday life of the academy. Consisting primarily of a series of
five first-person reports, Robert Porter, Kerry-Ann Porter and Iain
Mackenzie provide the reader with a number of stories that attempt
to capture some of their everyday experiences of academic life in
the UK, roughly between 2017 and 2022. Self-consciously written in
a subjective and conversational register, and often in dialogical
form, The University in Crumbs is an accessible series of
interrelated narratives that allow us to develop a concrete sense
of the grain, texture and feel for what it might be like to work in
the academy at a specific point in time. These stories,
first-person reports, dialogues, come alive, acquire their meaning,
force and pragmatic effect by way of a rather unique circumlocutory
form. There is a directedness to the everyday talk engaged in by
Robert, Kerry-Ann and Iain that nonetheless, simultaneously,
indirectly loops in and out of a kind of technical academic talk
that provides the book its light and shade. University in Crumbs is
an experimental work that implicitly and explicitly animates
philosophy, social, cultural and political theory through
first-person experiences and, in so doing, breathes new life into
what can often otherwise remain rather conventional and technical
academic language-games. More than that, this book dramatizes ideas
and concepts in ways perhaps less burdened by the weight of
canonical tradition, and encourages those readers with the talent
to portray their social world differently to be more licentious and
less bashful in putting such talents to work.
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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