How Long to Read Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186)

How Long Does it Take to Read Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186)?

It takes the average reader 19 hours and 24 minutes to read Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186) by Katherine Anne Porter

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"The centerpiece of this Library of America edition of Porter's shorter writings is The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965), the career-capping volume that won for its author a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, in Greenwich Village, Berlin, and the gothic Old South, these are stories that, in the words of V. S. Pritchett, "suggest the whole rather than the surface of life." They include her first, "Maria Concepcion" (1922), the tale of a Mexican Indian who confronts her husband's lover in a world where jealousy, revenge, and death are constant companions and the first allegiance is always to the living. Also her last, "Holiday" (1960), in which a young woman's account of her summer vacation - as the paying guest of a family of German farmers on the Texas - Louisiana border - deepens into a meditation on mute suffering, the rituals of death, and the death-in-life that is the failure to recognize a fellow person's humanity. All 26 stories - among them such masterpieces as "Flowering Judas," "Noon Wine," and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" - are wide in vision but laser-sharp in focus; they exemplify, in the words of Mary Gordon, "the clarity and inclusiveness of the art we proclaim as great."" "Here too, in the most comprehensive selection ever published, are Porter's short nonfiction writings, including speeches, notes, and essays on the writer's craft, literary reflections on Hardy, Pound, and Welty, political dispatches from revolutionary Mexico, and a personal history of the Sacco-Vanzetti case - some 80 items in all, concluding with two previously uncollected essays in autobiography. Storyteller and critic, reporter and book reviewer, private citizen and public figure, Porter in this collection can at last be seen whole, in all her roles and variety and excellence. She is unforgettable, a multifaceted master of American prose."--BOOK JACKET.

How long is Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186)?

Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186) by Katherine Anne Porter is 1,128 pages long, and a total of 291,024 words.

This makes it 381% the length of the average book. It also has 356% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 26 hours and 30 minutes to read Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186) aloud.

What Reading Level is Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186)?

Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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