The collected stories of Eudora Welty.

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Title:

The collected stories of Eudora Welty.

Author:

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.

ISBN:

9780156189217

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1980.

Physical Description:

xvi, 622 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Lily Daw and the three ladies -- Piece of news -- Petrified man -- Key -- Keela, the outcast Indian maiden -- Why I live at the P.O. -- Whistle -- Hitch-hikers -- Memory -- Clytie -- Old Mr. Marblehall -- Flowers for Marjorie -- Curtain of green -- Visit of charity -- Death of a traveling salesman -- Powerhouse -- Worn path -- First love -- Wide net -- Still moment -- Asphodel -- Winds -- Purple hat -- Livvie -- At the landing -- Shower of gold -- June recital -- Sir Rabbit -- Moon Lake -- Whole world knows -- Music from Spain -- Wanderers -- Bride of the Innisfallen and other stories. No place for you, my love -- Burning -- Bride of the Innisfallen -- Ladies in spring -- Circe -- Kin -- Going to Naples -- Where is the voice coming from? -- Demonstrators.

Reading Level:

980 L Lexile

Subject Term:

Short stories, American -- 20th century.

Short stories -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Summary:

This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.

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With a preface written by the author especially for this edition, this is the complete collection of stories by Eudora Welty.

Including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green , The Wide Net , The Golden Apples , and The Bride of the Innisfallen , as well as previously uncollected ones, these forty-one stories demonstrate Eudora Welty's talent for writing from diverse points-of-view with "vision that is sweet by nature, always humanizing, uncannily objective, but never angry" ( Washington Post ).

Author Notes

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, and at the University of Wisconsin. She moved to New York in 1930 to study advertising at the Columbia University business school. After her father's death, she moved back to Jackson in 1931. She held various jobs on local newspapers and at a radio station before becoming a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program. Travelling through the state of Mississippi opened her eyes to the misery of the great depression and resulted in a series of photographs, which were exhibited in a one-women show in New York in 1936 and were eventually published as One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression in 1971. She stopped working for the WPA in 1936.

Her first stories, Magic and Death of a Travelling Salesman, were published in small magazines in 1936. Some of her better-known short stories are Why I Live at the P.O., Petrified Man, and A Worn Path. Her short story collections include A Curtain of Green, The Golden Apples, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories.

Her first novel, The Robber Bridegroom, was published in 1942. Her other novels include Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. She received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972. Her nonfiction works include A Snapshot Album, The Eye of the Storm: Selected Essays and Reviews, and One Writer's Beginnings. She died from complications following pneumonia on July 23, 2001 at the age of 92.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Here are all of Welty's published stories--chiefly the contents of four previous collections: A Curtain of Green (1941), The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955). And it need hardly be said--since Welty continues to be enthusiastically anthologized and adapted (most recently in an acclaimed off-Broadway one-woman show)--that her famous tales of Southern small-town life have only become more impressive with time. But also included here are two stories from the 1960s: ""Where Is the Voice Coming From?,"" an uncollected 1963 New Yorker story narrated by a white man out to kill a black civil-rights leader (inspired, as Welty describes in her brief, modest preface, by the shooting of Medgar Evers); and ""The Demonstrators,"" another Sixties story of the uneasily changing South that appeared in the O. Henry Award Prize Stories 1968. A welcome gathering of an important writer's short fiction--some of which is her very best work of all. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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