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The Leaning Tower and Other Stories

A Library of America eBook Classic

By Katherine Anne Porter

By Katherine Anne Porter

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Mar 25, 2014 | ISBN 9781598533361

The Leaning Tower and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
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About The Leaning Tower and Other Stories

The classic 1944 collection of ten short stories by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author and journalist

Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the ten gems in this collection affirm Katherine Anne Porter’s genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, “with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.”

The collection includes The Old Order, a sequence of short stories that paints a devastating portrait of the racial inequities that plague life in the American South, as well as other selected stories such as “The Leaning Tower” and “The Downward Path to Wisdom”.

Also by Katherine Anne Porter

Flowering Judas and Other Stories
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels
Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186)
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About Katherine Anne Porter

In the 1920s and ’30s, 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… More about Katherine Anne Porter

Product Details

Category: Short Stories | Essays & Literary Collections | Literary Fiction

Ebook | $9.99
Published by Library of America
Mar 25, 2014 | 180 Pages | ISBN 9781598533361

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