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Eudora Welty
With a new Introduction from bestselling author Patchett, this National Book Award-winning collection–one of the great works of 20th-century American literature–contains 41 stories by a a contemporary master of short…
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Louise Westling
A study of the writer Eudora Welty dealing with her life and work, this text forms part of a series which is designed to help in the reassesment of women’s…
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In a series of interviews, Eudora Welty discusses her life in Mississippi, her literary career, and her novels and short stories
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Michael Kreyling
Provides close readings of Eudora Welty’s novels and short stories and the memoir One Writer’s Beginnings. Sifting through contemporary reviews and recent criticism, it argues that understanding the critical history…
Stephen M. Fuller
Surveys Eudora Welty’s fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism’s arrival in the United States largely through the…
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This is the first collection of Welty’s stories, originally published in 1941. It includes such classics as A Worn Path,Petrified Man,Why I Live at the P.O., and Death…
A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back…
Snowdie has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband, King Maclain, disappears one day, discarding his hat on the banks of the Big Black. Loch Morrison, convalescing…
Forty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and nominee for the National Book Critics Award, this incomparable work–part memoir, part essay, and part autobiography–offers a revealing look into…
These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America’s most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history…
Written late In life, The Optimist’s Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and autobiographical short novel written that finds the author coming to grips with her father’s death–and that of her…
William Hollingsworth, Jr., and Eudora Welty were Mississippi contemporaries who began their careers in the arts almost simultaneously. This keepsake book uniting these two acclaimed Mississippi artists and their work…
In prose and photography, this is Welty’s meditation on her inspiring encounter with an enduring landscape, originally published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1944. Duotone photos.
Copyright 1946, 1945 by Eudora Welty –Title page verso.
A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from…
Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is the talk of Clay County and a constant source of vexation for his niece…
A Gothic fairy tale set in eighteenth century Mississippi…the South, especially Miss Welty’s, is entirely its own thing’ Angus Wilson A fable from one of the best loved classic writers…
Three generations of Granny Vaughn’s descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller’s gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the…
Eudora Welty,Welty
Welty’s instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers.
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…
Jan Nordby Gretlund
In this study of the particular place from which Eudora Welty’s writing arises, Jan Nordby Gretlund argues for the importance of considering the historical and cultural background for Welty’s literary…
Richelle Putnam
Learn about the remarkable life of one of Mississippi’s literary treasures, complete with vivid illustrations by John Aycock that are as colorful as Eudora’s stories.
Faced with Welty’s preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines…
Faced with Eudora Welty’s preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that she was not concerned with issues of race. This collection counters those assumptions as it…
The second collection of interviews with the acclaimed Mississippi writer
This collection of essays about the writings of Eudora Welty reflects a range of Welty criticism. Themes, forms, and stylistic features in her work are given careful consideration by some…
Eudora Welty, for nearly forty years the first lady of southern letters, has recreated most memorably in her short stories and novels the voices and the personalities of her fellow…
Eudora Welty’s writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred are collected here. The reviews selected for reprinting here represent the…
Laurie Champion
Eudora Welty holds a prominent position among Southern writers, receiving critical attention in publications that scan a wide range of interests. The rest of the volume presents representative selections of…
Noel Polk
In complete detail the major bibliography of the works of one of America’s most admired writers
Carolyn J. Brown
Mississippi author Eudora Welty mentored many of today’s greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (1909-2001). Her life reflects a century…
The selections in Eudora Welty’s World, taken from her novels and short stories, are offered not only for their descriptive quality, but for her imaginative and provocative use of words…
Carol Ann Johnston
Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major…
The common denominator, though, is their collective awe and respect for her unrivaled place in America literature.
Dr M Uma Devi
The literary history of the American South since the Civil War has been fascinating. In more recent times on account of modernization, consequent upon industrialization and urbanization, there has been…
Pearl Amelia McHaney
Provides the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex assessments of Welty’s journalism, book reviews, letters…
Considers such topics as Welty’s uses of African American signifying in her short stories and her attention to public street performances interacting with Jim Crow rules in her unpublished photographs…
A collection of complementary and interrelated essays by ten well-known Eudora Welty critics on the controversial subject of Welty and the political. They show that although she repudiated the concept…
