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Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of fools
by Katherine Anne Porter
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143 editions published between 1932 and 2010 in 23 languages and held by 3,979 libraries worldwide The 48 first-class passengers and the 900 Spaniards in steerage on a passenger-freighter crossing from Mexico to Germany in 1931 are traveling on a voyage of life.
The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
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41 editions published between 1930 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 3,208 libraries worldwide 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.
Pale horse, pale rider : three short novels
by Katherine Anne Porter
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72 editions published between 1936 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,802 libraries worldwide Three short novels deal with turn of the century family life, a new hired hand, and the World War I homefront and the influenza epidemic.
Flowering Judas and other stories
by Katherine Anne Porter
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68 editions published between 1930 and 1994 in 9 languages and held by 2,243 libraries worldwide
The collected essays and occasional writings of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
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15 editions published between 1970 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,857 libraries worldwide Anthology of the distinguished American author's essays, biographical memoirs and poems on such diverse subjects as Thomas Hardy, marriage, the creative process and Dylan Thomas.
The leaning tower, and other stories
by Katherine Anne Porter
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62 editions published between 1934 and 1994 in 8 languages and held by 1,711 libraries worldwide The nine stories in the anthology deal with a variety of subjects from Berlin in the 30's to the Southern family of "Pale Horse, Pale Rider."
The never-ending wrong
by Katherine Anne Porter
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10 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 1,241 libraries worldwide
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter, refugee from Indian Creek
by Enrique Hank Lopez
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9 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 1,189 libraries worldwide
The days before
by Katherine Anne Porter
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20 editions published between 1943 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,120 libraries worldwide
Uncollected early prose of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
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8 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 1,112 libraries worldwide
Collected stories and other writings
by Katherine Anne Porter
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5 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 997 libraries worldwide A complete volume of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author's short stories includes a selection of definitive essays as gathered from her 1952 collection, The Days Before, as well as additional works from her early and later years.
Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
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10 editions published between 1990 and 1995 in English and held by 945 libraries worldwide Selected letters between Porter and fellow writers trace her development as a writer and reveal her outlook on life.
The martyr
by Katherine Anne Porter
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1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 749 libraries worldwide
The old order; stories of the South, from Flowering Judas, Pale horse, pale rider, and the leaning tower
by Katherine Anne Porter
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22 editions published between 1930 and 1988 in English and held by 745 libraries worldwide
Katherine Anne Porter : conversations
by Katherine Anne Porter
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10 editions published between 1983 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 732 libraries worldwide
A Christmas story
by Katherine Anne Porter
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7 editions published between 1958 and 1975 in English and German and held by 502 libraries worldwide
Fiesta in November : stories from Latin America
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1 edition published in 1942 in English and held by 451 libraries worldwide
Flowering Judas
by Katherine Anne Porter
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17 editions published between 1930 and 2004 in 6 languages and held by 448 libraries worldwide This casebook on "Flowering Judas" addresses Porter's ambivalence surrounding her roles as woman and artist and also attests to the profound influence of Mexico upon her work.
This strange, old world and other book reviews
by Katherine Anne Porter
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3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 388 libraries worldwide
Mae Franking's My Chinese marriage : an annotated edition
by Mae M Franking
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10 editions published between 1921 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 367 libraries worldwide In 1907, a seventeen-year-old Scotch-Irish girl named Mae Munro Watkins met nineteen-year-old Tiam Hock Franking of Amoy, China, while attending high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their growing love intensified later while both were students at the University of Michigan, where Mae studied Latin and German and Tiam prepared for a career in international law. Because of the legal and social restrictions in the early 1900s, interracial relationships such as theirs were. more
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Kʻai-shu-ling An Po-tʻe, 1890-1980
Po-tʻe, Kʻai-shu-ling An, 1890-1980
Porter, Katherine A. 1890-1980
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1894-
波特凱淑琳安, 1890-1980 波特凱淑琳安Languages
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