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Port William novels & stories : the Civil War to World War II / Wendell Berry ; Jack Shoemaker, editor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 302.Publisher: New York, NY : Library of America, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xiii, 1021 pages : map, genealogical table ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781598535549
  • 1598535544
Other title:
  • Port William novels and stories : the Civil War to World War II
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
The girl in the window (1864) -- The hurt man (1888) -- Fly away, breath (1907) -- A consent (1908) -- Pray without ceasing (1912) -- Watch with me (1916) -- A half-pint of old darling (1920) -- The lost bet (1929) -- Nathan Coulter (1929-1941) -- Down in the valley where the green grass grows (1930) -- Thicker than liquor (1930) -- Nearly to the fair (1932) -- Burley Coulter's fortunate fall (1934) -- A jonquil for Mary Penn (1940) -- Turn back the bed (1941) -- A desirable woman (1938-1941) -- Misery (1943) -- Andy Catlett : early education (1943) -- Andy Catlett : early travels (1943) -- Drouth (1944) -- A world lost (1944) -- A place on Earth (1945) -- Making it home (1945) -- Not a tear (1945)
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Berry, Wendell Available 33111008697662
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writers

For more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork of American prose: straightforward, spare, and lyrical. 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, which spans from the Civil War to World War II, gathers the novels Nathan Coulter (1960, revised 1985), A Place on Earth (1967, revised 1983), A World Lost (1996), and Andy Catlett: Early Travels (2006), along with twenty-three short stories, among them such favorites as "Watch With Me," "Thicker than Liquor," and "A Desirable Woman." It also features a newly researched chronology of Berry's life and career, a map and a Port William Membership family tree, and helpful notes.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Map and genealogical table on endpages.

Includes bibliographical references.

The girl in the window (1864) -- The hurt man (1888) -- Fly away, breath (1907) -- A consent (1908) -- Pray without ceasing (1912) -- Watch with me (1916) -- A half-pint of old darling (1920) -- The lost bet (1929) -- Nathan Coulter (1929-1941) -- Down in the valley where the green grass grows (1930) -- Thicker than liquor (1930) -- Nearly to the fair (1932) -- Burley Coulter's fortunate fall (1934) -- A jonquil for Mary Penn (1940) -- Turn back the bed (1941) -- A desirable woman (1938-1941) -- Misery (1943) -- Andy Catlett : early education (1943) -- Andy Catlett : early travels (1943) -- Drouth (1944) -- A world lost (1944) -- A place on Earth (1945) -- Making it home (1945) -- Not a tear (1945)

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