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Amerikaans Christmas stories, American Nouvelles américaines Biobibliographie Dictionnaires anglais Nouvelles américaines Dictionnaires anglais Porter, Katherine Anne 1890-1980 Roman américain 20e siècle Biobibliographie Dictionnaires anglais Roman américain 20e siècle Dictionnaires anglais Short stories Verhalen Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies Dictionnaires anglaisFilter By Subjects
Amerikaans Christmas stories, American Nouvelles américaines Biobibliographie Dictionnaires anglais Nouvelles américaines Dictionnaires anglais Porter, Katherine Anne 1890-1980 Roman américain 20e siècle Biobibliographie Dictionnaires anglais Roman américain 20e siècle Dictionnaires anglais Short stories Verhalen Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies Dictionnaires anglaisSummary: A strong, delicate, idiosyncratic writer with the power to evoke vast emotions in short words and the wisdom to understand large worlds in small scenes, Katherine Anne Porter wrote some of the best American short fiction of any age. She moves, sometimes plainly, sometimes unseen, throughout her world-a complex person combining the independence of a woman raised as a tomboy, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHISummary: Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of 80 who bosses her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control. Yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the altar....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Porter, Katherine Anne
Summary: 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
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORPorter, Katherine Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amereon Ltd. 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORContents: Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Rebecca West -- Dorothy Parker -- P.L. Travers -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Euroda Welty -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Mary McCarthy -- Nadine Gordimer -- Maya Angelou -- Anne Sexton -- Toni Morrison -- Susan Sontag -- Joan Didion -- Joyce Carol Oates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.8928 WOMSummary: An anthology of poetry and fiction by American women canvasses three hundred fifty years of writing to include the works of Puritan-era through contemporary authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 VINSummary: Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOHardwick, Elizabeth
Summary: Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her. She wrote sketches for various occasions and countless essays about literature, her greatest passion. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HARSummary: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfants brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831.01 COLSummary: "Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021