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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty [Paperback]

Eudora Welty (Author)

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Product Details

Paperback: 648 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Feb 1 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0156189216
ISBN-13: 978-0156189217
Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13.6 x 4.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 476 g

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #136,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, 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 stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.

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Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and lived a significant portion of her life in the city's Belhaven neighborhood, where her home has been preserved. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women (now called Mississippi University for Women), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Columbia Business School. While at Columbia University, where she was the captain of the women's polo team, Welty was a regular at Romany Marie's café in 1930.[1] During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration, a job that sent her all over the state of Mississippi photographing people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs are One Time, One Place and Photographs. The headstone of Eudora Welty at Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.Welty's true love was literature, not photography, and she soon devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her first short story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," appeared in 1936. Her work attracted the attention of Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941. The book immediately established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the legendary and oft-anthologized stories "Why I Live at the P.O.," "Petrified Man," and "A Worn Path." Her novel, The Optimist's Daughter, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. In 1992, Welty was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for her lifetime contributions to the American short story, and was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, founded in 1987. In her later life, she lived near Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi, where, despite her fame, she was still a common sight among the people of her hometown. Eudora Welty died of pneumonia in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 92, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unfinished music, Jun 2 2004

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Whenever I read Welty I feel as if I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop--as if she's holding back something, and herein lies the genius of her storytelling. While she knows what's going on in her stories well before the rest of us do, it's her pacing and skill with holding back that create the tension and psychological realm that we're drawn into. The only othe author I can think of that manages this might be Jackson McCrae in his "Bark of the Dogwood--A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens" or possibly some of Alice Walker's books. Still, if you're a fan of literature, Southern or not, you MUST read this great writer's works. "A Curtain of Green" is my favorite. Highly recommended to anyone with a pulse.

Also recommended: "Bark of the Dogwood" and "The Color Purple"

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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This Book And A Large Highlighter, Jun 10 2002

James L. Vickery "Larry Vickery" (Cordova, tn United States) - See all my reviews
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You will run out of highlighter ink reading this one, because there are so many passages you will surely want to reread and savor later.

This grand matriarch of Southern Writer Tradition was first discovered, praised and published by luminaries such as Robert Penn Warren when he was coeditor of The Southern Review, Edward Weeks when he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and Mary Louise Aswell, when she was fiction editor of Harper's Bazaar.

This collection of stories is truly worthy to be called a classic. It is sometimes tedious reading, because the stories and characters are complex. After a number of false starts over a period of years, I finally resolved to give this scholarly work the focused time and attention it deserves, and feel richly rewarded for the effort.

Ms. Welty joins the ranks of great writers who prove to us that a great writer does not have to live the experience to effectively write about it. She leaps with ease between characters as diverse as Aaron Burr, a deaf black servant boy, a traveling salesmen, eccentric Southern matrons, and countless others. She portrays them in all of their complexities as if she had lived the experiences of each. Her descriptions of scenes and settings are equally as lucid and believable as if she had first hand knowledge of each. This rare and precious gift is best described in her own words, "I have been told, both in approval and accusation, that I seem to love all of my characters. What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself. Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high."

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, Oct 5 2001

Dawn Bliesener (Derby, Connecticut United States) - See all my reviews

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Ms. Welty is an example of not just southern writers but history as well. An reader would be smart to read her works.

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