Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels
A Library of America eBook Classic
Published on 25. March 2014
150 pages
978-1-59853-333-0 (ISBN)
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The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918
In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger-only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of Old Mortality introduce the teenager Miranda and chronicle her journey of self-discovery, as she gradually realizes her family's romantic nostalgia for her absent uncle and late aunt bears little resemblance to the truth.
Miranda returns in the title story, Pale Horse, Pale Rider. She is now working as a drama critic for a newspaper in Denver, where she falls in love with a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When Miranda falls ill, Adam cares for her until she is moved to a hospital. Throughout her ordeal, on everyone's mind is "the war, the war, the WAR to end WAR, war for Democracy, for humanity, a safe world forever and ever."
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In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger-only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of Old Mortality introduce the teenager Miranda and chronicle her journey of self-discovery, as she gradually realizes her family's romantic nostalgia for her absent uncle and late aunt bears little resemblance to the truth.
Miranda returns in the title story, Pale Horse, Pale Rider. She is now working as a drama critic for a newspaper in Denver, where she falls in love with a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When Miranda falls ill, Adam cares for her until she is moved to a hospital. Throughout her ordeal, on everyone's mind is "the war, the war, the WAR to end WAR, war for Democracy, for humanity, a safe world forever and ever."
Available in this exclusive Library of America e-book edition
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In the 1920s and 1930s, Katherine Anne Porter emerged as a classicist among the moderns, a lapidary miniaturist whose every short story was greeted as a thing of timeless perfection. Edmund Wilson called her "a first-rate artist" who wrote "English of a purity and precision almost unique in contemporary American fiction." Her mastery of theme and gift for characterization were hers alone among the storywriters; even her shortest works were imbued with a richness of design, incident, and experience seldom found outside long novels. Her ambition and her range of emotion and effect-from cold realism to measureless compassion, from the plainspoken to the lyrical-were unequaled in her time and have had few successors. She was, and is forever, an American original.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Editor
- Contents
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Old Mortality
- Noon Wine
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Chronology
- Note on the Texts
- Notes
