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Concluding by Henry Green; Eudora Welty
Category: Classics
"Old Mr. Rock lives in a cottage, given to him by the State in gratitude for his scientific work, with his granddaughter Elizabeth. His household includes Daisy the pig, Ted the goose and Alice the cat but there threatens to be an additional member in the person of Sebastian, the schoolteacher whom Eliz ...Show more
Conversations With Eudora Welty by Peggy Whitman (EDT) Eudora; Prenshaw Welty
Category: Fiction | Series: Literary Conversations Series
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
Category: Classic Fiction
The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog. Its real name was the Yazoo-Delta. It was a mixed train. The day was the 10th of September, 1923 - afternoon. Laura McRaven, who was nine years old, was on her first journey alone. Laura McRaven travels down the Delta to attend her cousin Dabney's wedding. A ...Show more
Moon Lake by Eudora Welty
Category: Fiction
"Watch out for the mosquitoes', they called to one another, lyrically because warning wasn't any use anyway, as they walked out of their kimonos and dropped them like the petals of one big scattered flower on the bank behind them, and exposing themselves felt in a hundred places at once the little pangs ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty; Ann Patchett (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award-winning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her ...Show more
The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 with malaria, watches from his bedroom window as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house opposite.
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. ...Show more
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