The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon: With an Introduction by Robert Penn Warren - Softcover

Gordon, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807116300 ISBN 13: 9780807116302

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1990

Synopsis

This collection brings together all the short fiction published in Gordon s lifetime. With an Introduction by Robert Penn Warren.

About this title

About the Author

Caroline Gordon (1895–1981) was the author of nine novels, two short story collections, and two works of criticism. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a winner of the O. Henry Award. Her Collected Stories was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Review

Praise for Caroline Gordon and The Collected Stories

“[Caroline Gordon] is great on getting things there so concretely that they can’t possibly escape . . . That is real masterly doing, and nobody does it any better than Caroline. You walk through her stories like you are walking in a complete real world. And watch how the meaning comes from the things themselves and not from her imposing anything.”—Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor

“The lessons of Henry James and [Ford Madox] Ford are applied to Southerners of all classes in stories shot through with a brilliant ‘solidity of specification.’ A wonderful book.”—The Washington Post Book World

“In this collection one can see how a story speaks for its creator’s sense of literary timelessness . . . [These stories] are records of the struggles of the human spirit to survive.”—The Christian Science Monitor

“Extraordinary vigor . . . Caroline Gordon writes with uncommon probity and assurance.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807116300
• ISBN 13: 9780807116302
• Binding: Paperback