Katherine anne porter short stories list

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a collection of, you guessed it, short stories, written by, yes, Katherine Anne Porter.

It is a collection of 26 short stories and short novels (in the preface, Porter expresses a strong dislike for the word "novella").

Katherine anne porter short stories list

The 26 stories are every short story Porter ever published, 22 of which were included in prevous collections and four of which were published in book form for the first time. In fact, the collection is almost Porter's entire fictional output, missing only her one novel, Ship of Fools.

Many of the stories are set in Mexico, a country that Porter visited enough to consider a second home.

Tropes:

• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Rosaleen in "The Cracked Looking-Glass", a woman in her forties married to a man thirty years older who, it is hinted, can't get it up anymore.

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