Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels -- Old Mortality; Noon Wine; Pale Horse, Pale Rider (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 45)

264 pp. 8vo. Three novellas by the author who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1965. Includes: Old Mortality; Noon Wine; Pale Horse, Pale Rider. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil."