The Ponder Heart
by:
Eudora Welty (author)
Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of vexation for his niece, Edna Earle. Uncle Daniel’s trial for the alleged murder of his seventeen-year-old bride is a comic masterpiece. Awarded the William Dean Howells Medal of the american Academy...
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Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of vexation for his niece, Edna Earle. Uncle Daniel’s trial for the alleged murder of his seventeen-year-old bride is a comic masterpiece. Awarded the William Dean Howells Medal of the american Academy of Arts and Letters. Drawings by Joe Krush.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156729154 (0156729156)
Publish date: October 18th 1967
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 168
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Southern,
Modern Classics,
High School,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic
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