Katherine Anne Porter Bücher

Der große Gesellschaftsroman des 20. Jahrhunderts in einer wunderbaren Neuausgabe: Die Wiederentdeckung eines Meisterwerks, das 1962 als weltliterarisches Ereignis gefeiert wurde, setzt ein eindrucksvolles Mahnmal für das Versagen unserer Zivilisation am Vorabend der Nazi-Barbarei. Katherine Anne Porters Gesellschaftssatire bietet eine zeitlos gültige Kritik am chronischen Unverstand des Menschengeschlechts. Im August 1931 versammelt sich im Hafen von Veracruz eine bunt gemischte Reisegesellschaft, um nach Bremerhaven zu schiffen. Deutsche, Schweizer, Amerikaner und Mexikaner zeigen bald, dass niemand ernsthaft am anderen interessiert ist; Egoismus und Ignoranz dominieren. Kaum hat das Schiff, die «Vera», den Hafen verlassen, beginnt das große Taxieren und Ausgrenzen. Moralische, soziale und rassische Vorurteile kommen offen zur Sprache. Während sich die Damen als skrupellose Intrigantinnen und die Herren als zynische Menschenverächter entpuppen, zeigt sich die Abgründe menschlicher Verkommenheit. Die Situation eskaliert, als erotische Verführungskünste und ein Maskenfest die letzten zivilisatorischen Tabus fallen lassen. Mit einem illusionslosen Menschenbild und moralischer Radikalität sorgte Porters Satire für Aufsehen und wurde von der New York Times zu den größten Romanen des Jahrhunderts gezählt. Die Geschichte wurde auch von Stanley Kramer mit internationaler Starbesetzung verfilmt.

Contains all of the stories from A curtain of green and other stories and The wide net and other stories.

A number of Porter's finest stories have their setting in the South at the turn of the century. The Old Order brings these together in a single volume, including six stories from The Leaning Tower, three stories from Flowering Judas, and the short novel "Old Mortality" from Pale Horse, Pale Rider.

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.

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.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

A collection that gathers together 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.

She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A tender story of devotion, resentment and ennui from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

In Stories of Initiation teenage heroes face the realities of adult life. Confrontations with birth, rejection, growing old and death herald an aprupt end to their childhood.

Trojnovela, ktorá rozpráva vlastne dva príbehy : detstvo a dospievanie mladého dievčaťa Mirandy v atmosfére patriarchálnych rodinných vzťahov na prelome storočia v kraji "silných chlapov" a silných náruživostí, a na tomto pozadí sa dozvedáme históriu jej krásnej tety Amy, ktorú každý miloval, ktorá rada žila a bola veselá, a ktorá zomrela za záhadných okolností krátko po svadbe...