Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

A Library of America eBook Classic

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary, Historical
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Author: Katherine Anne Porter ISBN: 9781598533330
Publisher: Library of America Publication: March 25, 2014
Imprint: Library of America Language: English
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
ISBN: 9781598533330
Publisher: Library of America
Publication: March 25, 2014
Imprint: Library of America
Language: English

This classic 1939 collection of three short novels, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, elevated Katherine Anne Porter, in the words of one contemporary critic, “into the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James.”

In “Noon Wine?” a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of “Old Mortality” introduce the teenager Miranda and chronicle her journey of self-discovery, as she gradually realizes her family’s romantic nostalgia for her absent uncle and late aunt bears little resemblance to the truth.

Miranda returns in the title story, “Pale Horse, Pale Rider.” She is now working as a drama critic for a newspaper in Denver, where she falls in love with a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918.  When Miranda falls ill, Adam cares for her until she is moved to a hospital. Throughout her ordeal, on everyone’s mind is “the war, the war, the WAR to end WAR, war for Democracy, for humanity, a safe world forever and ever.”

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This classic 1939 collection of three short novels, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, elevated Katherine Anne Porter, in the words of one contemporary critic, “into the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James.”

In “Noon Wine?” a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of “Old Mortality” introduce the teenager Miranda and chronicle her journey of self-discovery, as she gradually realizes her family’s romantic nostalgia for her absent uncle and late aunt bears little resemblance to the truth.

Miranda returns in the title story, “Pale Horse, Pale Rider.” She is now working as a drama critic for a newspaper in Denver, where she falls in love with a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918.  When Miranda falls ill, Adam cares for her until she is moved to a hospital. Throughout her ordeal, on everyone’s mind is “the war, the war, the WAR to end WAR, war for Democracy, for humanity, a safe world forever and ever.”

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