The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Civil rights, Self-discovery, Mythology or myths, Suicide, South or Southerners, Alienation, Dreams, Reality, Small-town life, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Loneliness, Mental retardation, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Naivete, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons
Form and Content
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty contains forty-one stories—the distinguished Southern writer’s complete short-fiction corpus. It includes four earlier volumes—A Curtain of Green (1941), The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955)—and two stories for The New Yorker previously uncollected, “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” (1963) and “The Demonstrators” (1966). In her preface, Eudora Welty, always the model of graciousness,...
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