01727cam a2200325 4500 295958644 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 711124s1965||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 65014706 //r8524 9780156188760 $20.95 0156188767 $20.95 (OCoLC)562245 TxAuBib Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. Collected stories [BOOK] / Katherine Anne Porter. Collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter. 1st American ed. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1965] viii, 495 pages ; 22 cm. Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1966. María 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. 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. 20100106. Manners and customs Fiction. Short stories, American 20th century. Short stories. Pulitzer winner books. National Book Award winner books.