BookshelfThe Leaning TowerKatherine Anne Porter
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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”.
Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
From WikiquoteThe human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.
The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday.
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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Flowering Judas and other storiesKatherine Anne PorterFlowering Judas and other storiesKatherine Anne Porter
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Short storiesKatherine Anne PorterShort storiesKatherine Anne Porter
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Pale horse, pale riderKatherine Anne PorterPale horse, pale riderKatherine Anne Porter
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Collected storiesKatherine Anne PorterCollected storiesKatherine Anne Porter
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The days beforeKatherine Anne PorterThe days beforeKatherine Anne Porter
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The old orderKatherine Anne PorterThe old orderKatherine Anne Porter
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Ship of FoolsKatherine Anne PorterShip of FoolsKatherine Anne Porter
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Great American Short Stories1957Great American Short Stories
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition1952The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience1999Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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Great Short Stories of the World1972Great Short Stories of the World
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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories1971The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
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American Short Stories1965American Short Stories
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Understanding fiction -- Second Edition1959Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
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Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level1980Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
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