Four of the exceptional short stories that won Katherine Anne Porter both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In "The Cracked Looking Glass," Rosaleen's dream and stories collide with the gray reality of life on a remote Connecticut farm. For 9-year-old Miranda, "The Grave," is her grandfather's empty one, now just a hole in the ground. But the rabbit her brother shoots reveals the mystery of death...and life. The tale of a spell cast by a mean-spirited New Orleans fancy house Madam is related by a maid to her new employer in "Magic." In "Flowering Judas," a young foreign woman aiding a revolutionary group in Mexico finds denial no match for her growing sense of moral responsibility.