The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon

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

"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

"Finishing these stories, one is like a gratified traveler who remembers vividly where he's been and longs to return. Caroline Gordon stands in the tradition of our most prized southern writers. She preserves our heritage."—Newsday

"[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

"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





Table of Contents
Introduction by Robert Penn Warren
I
The Petrified Woman
The Burning Eyes
Tom Rivers
Old Red
The Enemies
One More Time
The Long Day
To Thy Chamber Window, Sweet
The Last Day in the Field
The Presence
One Against Thebes

II
Hear the Nightingale Sing
The Forest of the South
The Ice House
The Captive

III
The Brilliant Leaves
Her Quaint Honor
Mr. Powers
All Lovers Love the Spring
The Waterfall

IV
A Walk with the Accuser
The Olive Garden
Emmanuele! Emmanuele!

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