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Port William Series

14 primary works • 17 total works
Nathan Coulter
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3.92 · 5447 Ratings · 724 Reviews · published 1960 · 5 editions
Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of …

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    A Place on Earth
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    4.33     · 3542 Ratings · 484 Reviews · published 1966 · 26 editions
    Published in 1967, we return to Port William durin…

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    The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel
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    4.34     · 3931 Ratings · 591 Reviews · published 1974 · 23 editions
    Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War a…

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    Remembering
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    4.03     · 2345 Ratings · 311 Reviews · published 1988 · 21 editions
    Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. A…

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    A World Lost
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    4.13     · 2043 Ratings · 306 Reviews · published 1996 · 20 editions
    Andy Catlett is nine years old when his Uncle Andr…

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    Jayber Crow
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    4.39     · 21885 Ratings · 3545 Reviews · published 2000 · 25 editions
    “This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “…

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    Hannah Coulter
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    4.39     · 21284 Ratings · 3569 Reviews · published 2004 · 23 editions
    Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel an…

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    Andy Catlett: Early Travels
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    4.22     · 2421 Ratings · 382 Reviews · published 2006 · 36 editions
    Nine-year-old Andy Catlett embarks on a trip going…

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    The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
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    4.42     · 882 Ratings · 130 Reviews · published 1986 · 13 editions
    Now in paperback for the first time, Berry's popul…

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    Fidelity: Five Stories
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    4.42     · 2962 Ratings · 432 Reviews · published 1992 · 13 editions
    "Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and …

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    Watch With Me
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    4.42     · 668 Ratings · 112 Reviews · published 1994 · 17 editions
    In these seven interrelated stories we are again i…

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    Two More Stories of the Port William Membership
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    4.46     · 80 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1997 · 5 editions
    Fiction. Two stories of rural life from the author…

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    A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
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    4.44     · 1164 Ratings · 173 Reviews · published 2002 · 13 editions
    One of America’s most acclaimed writers deepens an…

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    How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
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    4.37     · 617 Ratings · 131 Reviews · 7 editions
    Return to Port William, the fictional Kentucky tow…

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    That Distant Land: The Collected Stories
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    4.56     · 1715 Ratings · 265 Reviews · published 2002 · 15 editions
    Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land br…

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    The Great Interruption: The Story of a Famous Story of Old Port William and How It Ceased To Be Told
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    4.13     · 23 Ratings · 7 Reviews · 3 editions
    The Threepenny Review, Fall 2018

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    Port William Novels & Stories (The Civil War to World War II): Nathan Coulter / Andy Catlett: Early Travels / A World Lost / A Place on Earth / Stories
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    4.76     · 177 Ratings · 30 Reviews · published 2018 · 2 editions
    For more than fifty years, in eight novels and for…

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