Literary Fiction · WarmAll of Eudora Welty's published short fiction in one volume, plus two stories that had never been collected
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
Four of Welty's story collections and two more stories, in one book
The book collects four earlier volumes: A Curtain of Green (1941), The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), The Golden Apples (1949) and The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955). It adds two stories that had not been in a book before, both first published in The New Yorker: Where Is the Voice Coming From? (1963) and The Demonstrators (1966). Her narrators range from Aaron Burr to a deaf Black servant boy, a traveling salesman and eccentric Southern matrons.
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Who
A wide range of narrators and characters, among them Aaron Burr, a deaf Black servant boy, a traveling salesman and Southern matrons.
World
Small-town life in the American South, among other settings.
What makes it different
It is the complete gathering of her short fiction to that date, with a May 1980 preface by the author.
Feel
Warm and varied. The paperback won the 1983 National Book Award in the paperback fiction category.
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