Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories (The Civil War to World War II)

Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork 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 to World War II, gathers the novels Nathan Coulter (1960, revised 1985), A Place on Earth (1967, revised 1983), A World Lost (1996), and Andy Catlett: Early Travels (2006), along with twenty-three short stories, among them such favorites as “Watch With Me,” “Thicker than Liquor,” and “A Desirable Woman.”

It also features a newly researched chronology of Berry’s life and career, a map and a Port William Membership family tree, and helpful notes.

Titles by Author

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry 
The World-Ending Fire
What Are People For? 
Home Economics
Remembering
Jayber Crow
Andy Catlett 
A World Lost 
A Place on Earth 
Nathan Coulter
Hannah Coulter
That Distant Land