I'm embarrassed to say that even though I have a BA in Literature and am a lifelong obsessive reader, I just don't get Virginia Woolf. I want to. I'm fascinated by her life, her circle of friends, and her era, but I find her writing impenetrable and thus boring. Just thinking about it makes me yawn.
I've read the first two collections brought together in this book. I liked the first one a lot. The people and the actions were colorful and varied. The second collection by contrast I found somewhat dull. Rather than stories they are more like extended meditations on situations.
Rating: 4.5* of fiveThe unassuming, delight-filled, unsparingly indulgent prose of Miss Eudora's fiction is surpassed in this expansion and revision of her Massey Lecture in the History of American Civilization, delivered at Harvard in 1983. For anyone unacquainted with Miss Eudora's literary output...
"The South impresses its image on the Southern writer from the moment he is able to distinguish one sound from another," Flannery O'Connor wrote in her 1963 essay "The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South," and Eudora Welty expressed a similar sentiment roughly 20 years later in her memoir "One...
"Listening," "Learning to See" and "Finding a Voice," Eudora Welty entitled the three chapters of her autobiography "One Writer's Beginnings," the concluding entry in this collection, one of the two Library of America compilations dedicated to her work. And while these may be steps that most writers...
I've liked Welty's work in the past, and this is a good book. But I would leave like it at that even though it won the Pulitzer. It was the Judge's character and his recent actions (the young second wife) that I felt were not handled well enough. I can see many reasons why he may decided to just die...
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