Mariner Books, 1965. — 252 p. — ISBN: 0156899698; ISBN13: 9780156899697. Thirteen outstanding short stories by Welty, written between 1937 and 1951. “Miss Welty has written some of the finest short stories of modern times” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Selected and with an Introduction by Ruth M. Vande Kieft. "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty is a short story about an elderly...
Harvest Books, 1956. — 288 p. — ISBN: 015636090X; ISBN13: 9780156360906. Eudora Welty's prose is in some sense beyond the human mind; beyond what fiction addresses. Her fiction is poetry, but beyond poetry. It is complex in not supernatural ways, but maybe in superhuman ways: in ways that are real but that are beyond the human mind. Welty is on home ground in the state of...
Mariner Books, 1978. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0156768070; ISBN13: 9780156768078. Based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, the novella evinces masterful use of narrative compression which gives it the ring of parable. Legendary figures of Mississippi's past - flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers - mingle with characters from Eudora Welty's own imagination in...
Little Brown, Virago modern classics, 1994. — 196 p. — ISBN: 0-86068-375-3. The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty. It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after he has surgery for a detached retina. He fails to recover from the surgery, though, surrenders...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0151247749; ISBN13: 9780151247745. 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 the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family’s...
University Press of Mississippi, 1994. — 280 p. — ISBN: 0878056831; ISBN13: 9780878056835. Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short story and the novel are definitive pieces. Her...
Harcourt Brace, 1982. — 622 p. — ISBN: 0156189216. With a preface written by the author especially for this edition, this is the complete collection of stories by Eudora Welty. Including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected ones, these forty-one stories demonstrate Eudora...
Random House; 194 p. 1973 The Optimist's Daughter is a compact and inward-looking little novel, a Pulitzer Prize winner that's slight of page yet big of heart. The optimist in question is 71-year-old Judge McKelva, who has come to a New Orleans hospital from Mount Salus, Mississippi, complaining of a "disturbance" in his vision. To his daughter, Laurel, it's as rare for him to...