The Golden Apples (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: Early to mid-twentieth century
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Mythology or myths, South or Southerners, Music or musicians, Middle classes, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Mental illness, Illegitimacy, Pianos or pianists, Loneliness, Happiness
- Locales: Mississippi
Places Discussed
Morgana. Mississippi town about nineteen miles from Vicksburg, by way of a gravel road that crosses thirteen little bridges and the bridge over the Big Black River, Morgana is little more than a wide place in the road. From the MacLain house at one end of the road to the Starks’ at the other, each story is set in Morgana or draws on the emotional ties that Morgana exerts on its sons and daughters. As one story after another unfolds, the reader pieces together the whole cloth that is the communal life of Morgana’s inexorably linked inhabitants.
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