Books like The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Porter's stories and short novels, among them Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Noon Wine and Flowering Judas, set in Texas, Mexico and the South.
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Forty-two stories, among them A Rose for Emily, That Evening Sun, Barn Burning and Dry September, set mostly in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and in the wars.
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Mansfield's stories of family life in New Zealand and England, among them At the Bay, The Garden Party and The Daughters of the Late Colonel.
Florida
Eleven stories that circle Florida and its storms, snakes and heat, from two small sisters abandoned on an island to a mother who walks her neighbourhood at night to keep her rage in check.
Heart Lamp
Twelve stories of Muslim women and girls in southern India, written over three decades, translated from Kannada.
A Curtain of Green
Welty's debut stories of small-town Mississippi lives: a travelling salesman, a postmistress, a Black jazz pianist, women talking on porches and in beauty parlours.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
All four of Welty's story collections and a few uncollected pieces, from 'Why I Live at the P.O.' and 'A Worn Path' to the linked Morgana tales of The Golden Apples.
All the King's Men
A political aide rises with a populist Southern governor modelled on Huey Long, watching idealism curdle into corruption and violence.
The Stories of John Cheever
Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Stories told by Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana after the war, of the lives and loves they carried with them.
I Want To Show You More
Linked stories about faith, marriage, and desire in the American South, where Protestant conscience collides with carnal longing.
New Orleans Sketches
Short prose sketches Faulkner wrote in 1925 for the Times-Picayune and The Double Dealer while living in the French Quarter, portraits of beggars, sailors, jockeys and bootleggers by a young writer finding his range.
Memphis
In 1995 Joan, ten, flees with her mother and younger sister to her mother's family home in Memphis, where three generations of women have lived and survived.