Port William novels & stories : the Civil War to World War II
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Port William novels & stories : the Civil War to World War II
(The library of America, 302)
Library of America, c2018
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Note
Map on front and geneal. table on back lining paper
Chronology: p. 989-1007
Note on the texts:p. 1008-1012
Notes:p. 1013-1021
Contents of Works
- The girl in the window
- The hurt man
- Fly away, breath
- A consent
- Pray without ceasing
- Watch with me
- A half-pint of old darling
- The lost bet
- Nathan Coulter
- Down in the valley where the green grass grows
- Thicker than liquor
- Nearly to the fair
- Burley Coulter's fortunate fall
- The solemn boy
- A jonquil for Mary Penn
- Turn back the bed
- A burden
- A desirable woman
- Misery
- Andy Catlett : early education
- Andy Catlett : early travels
- Drouth
- Stand by me
- A world lost
- A place on earth
- Making it home
- Not a tear
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Port William, Kentucky, is one of the most fully realized settings in American literature. For more than fifty years, in novels and stories that combine a Faulknerian sense of place with the wry characterization of Mark Twain, Wendell Berry has told its history from the Civil War to the present day. This agrarian world is populated with memorable characters collectively known as the Port William Membership, women and men whose stories evoke a time when farming, faith, and family were the anchors of community and the ligaments that bound generation to generation. Now, for the first time, in an edition prepared in consultation with the author, Library of America is presenting the complete story of Port William in the order of narrative chronology. This first volume contains twenty-three stories and four novels that span from 1864 to 1945, as a town that sees itself as rooted in its past faces the forces of mechanization and the looming possibility of its own disappearance. Throughout, the stories that Port William tells of itself, repeated between friends and among fellow workers, turn wit and gossip into proverbial wisdom. All the stories reveal the ways that ordinary men and women strive to achieve right relationship with themselves, with Creator and Creation, through small acts that combine, over time, to foster a sustainable community imbued with hope and wonder.
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