Eudora Welty

A strong sense of place-in this case Mississippi-along with often larger-than-life characterizations of ordinary folk with all their glorious eccentricities and foibles, and above all a completely distinctive voice, come together in Eudora Welty's fiction to offer us a world that is sometimes sad, sometimes comic, often petty, and always compassionate. Here is a baker's dozen of Welty's very best, including: "The Wide Net," in which a pregnant wife...

This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.

Presents the collected short stories of twentieth-century American writer Eudora Welty, and includes a selection of nine literary and personal essays, as well as a memoir of the author's childhood.

Revised versions of 3 lectures delivered at Harvard University in Apr. 1983.

An elderly African-American woman who lives out in the country makes the long and arduous journey into town, as she has done manytimes in the past.