Description - Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Civil War to World War II by Wendell Berry
Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writers
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 fortytwoshort stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has createdan indelible portrait of rural America through the lensof Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fullyimagined places in American literature.Taken together, these novels and stories form amasterwork 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 toWorld War II, gathers the novels Nathan Coulter(1960, revised 1985), A Place on Earth (1967, revised1983), A World Lost (1996), and Andy Catlett- EarlyTravels (2006), along with twenty-three short stories,among them such favorites as "Watch With Me,""Thicker than Liquor," and "A Desirable Woman." Italso features a newly researched chronology of Berry'slife and career, a map and a Port William Membershipfamily tree, and helpful notes.
LIBRARY OF AMERICAis 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.
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