an art of the commonplace

The Stories of Port William
and Vicinity
by
Mr. Wendell Berry


 The People of Port William and Thereabouts

NC Nathan Coulter, 1960. revised North Point, 1985.

PE A Place on Earth, 1967. revised North Point 1983.

BW "The Bringer of Water" in Farming: A Hand Book, 1970. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

OJ The Memory of Old Jack, 1974. Harcourt Brace.

WB The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership, 1986. North Point.
1. "Thicker Than Liquor (1930)"
2. "Where Did They Go? (1947)"
3. "It Wasn't Me (1953)"
4. "The Boundary (1965)"
5. "That Distant Land (1965)"
6. "The Wild Birds (1967)"

R Remembering, 1988. North Point.

DK The Discovery of Kentucky, 1991. Gnomon Press.

F Fidelity, 1992. Pantheon.
1. "Pray Without Ceasing" 1912
2. "A Jonquil for Mary Penn"
3. "Making It Home" 1945
4. "Fidelity" 1977
5. "Are You All Right?"

WW Watch With Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch, 1994. Pantheon.
1. "A Consent - 1908"
2. " A Half-Pint of Old Darling - 1920"
3. "The Lost Bet - 1929"
4. "Nearly to the Fair - 1932"
5. "The Solemn Boy - 1934"
6. "Turn Back the Bed - 1941"
7. "Watch With Me - 1916"

WL A World Lost, 1996. Counterpoint.

TM Two More Stories of the Port William Membership, 1997. Gnomon Press.
1. "A Friend of Mine" 1967
2. "The Inheritors"

JC Jayber Crow, 2000. Counterpoint.

DL That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker, 2004.
1.The Hurt Man (1888)
2. Don't Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work (1891)
3. A Consent (1908)
4. Pray Without Ceasing (1912)
5. Watch With Me (1916)
6. A Half-Pint of Old Darling (1920)
7. The Lost Bet (1929)
8. Thicker than Liquor (1930)
9. Nearly to the Fair (1932)
10. The Solemn Boy (1934)
11. A Jonquil for Mary Penn (1940)
12. Turn Back the Bed (1941)
13. Making It Home (1945)
14. Where Did They Go? (1947)
15. The Discovery of Kentucky (1952)
16. It Wasn't Me (1953)
17, The Boundary (1965)
18. That Distant Land (1965)
19.A Friend of Mine (1967)
20. The Wild Birds (1967)
21. Are You Alright? (1973)
22. Fidelity (1977)
23. The Inheritors (1986)

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky