The Collected Stories
by:
Eudora Welty (author)
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...
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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).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156189217 (0156189216)
ASIN: 156189216
Publish date: February 1st 1982
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Pages no: 622
Edition language: English
I was introduced to this book by a smooth-talking, cool, British professor, who mentioned it was his favorite . . . collection of short stories? Book? It’s difficult to remember now. That was years ago. And it wasn’t the first time I had heard of the collection. I think in college I even record...
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.
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