Selected Stories of Eudora Welty (Modern Library, 290.1) - Hardcover

Eudora Welty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394602900 ISBN 13: 9780394602905

Publisher: The Modern Library/Random House, 1971

Synopsis

Collected Works, Literary Fiction, Short Stories

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. I've stayed in one place,' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination.' Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. Linking them all is Welty's remarkable ear for the language and point of view of the South. 'She's a lot smarter than her cousins in Beula,' someone remarks about a reputed suicide in one story. 'Especially Edna Earle, that never did get to be what you'd call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the 'c' got through the 'I' in a Coca-Cola sign."

The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque.

About the Author:

One of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, which is still her home. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is the author of, among many other books, One Writer's Beginnings, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Modern Library/Random House
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0394602900
• ISBN 13: 9780394602905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214