Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider (ISBN 0-15-170755-3) is a collection of three novellas by American author Katherine Anne Porter published in 1939. The title story is about the relationship between a newspaper woman, Miranda, and a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. In the course of the narrative, Miranda becomes sick and delirious, but recovers, only to find that Adam has died of the disease, which he likely caught while tending to her. The historian Alfred Crosby considered Pale Horse, Pale Rider to be such an exceptional depiction of the suffering caused by the influenza that he dedicated his book about the 1918 epidemic to Porter. The author Robert Penn Warren said the novella was “at the top level, you know, in that collection of the world’s short novels.”[1] The book also includes the stories "Noon Wine" and "Old Mortality."
