The Optimist's Daughter

The Optimist's Daughter is 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. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.

Literature & Fiction

WELTY, Eudora

Contemporary

Harpercollins

In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the uproariously multilayered "Why I Live at the P.O.," the spontaneous "Powerhouse" and the insightful voice of women's truths in "Petrified Man." Ms. Welty's reading brings immediacy and resonance to these wonderful tales.

Essential Welty CD: Why I Live at the P.O., A Memory, Powerhouse and Petrified Man

Caedmon

Page edges tanned, book is in a protective cover. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

The Collected Stories Of Eudora Welty

Penguin

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, 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 stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

This is the first collection of Welty’s stories, originally published in 1941. It includes such classics as “A Worn Path,” “Petrified Man,” “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and “Death of a Traveling Salesman.” The historic Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter brought Welty to the attention of the american reading public.

A Curtain Of Green: and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

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 preparations for her cousin Dabney’s wedding.

Delta Wedding

Harcourt

Snowdie MacLain's husband returns from the dead to surprise the inhabitants of Morgana, Mississippi

Golden Apples

The Ponder Heart

Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of vexation for his niece, Edna Earle. Uncle Danielâ€™s trial for the alleged murder of his seventeen-year-old bride is a comic masterpiece. Awarded the William Dean Howells Medal of the american Academy of Arts and Letters. Drawings by Joe Krush.

Classics

The Robber Bridegroom

Legendary figures of Mississippiâs past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Weltyâs own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale. âFor all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautifulâ (New Yorker).

Moser, Barry

This collection combines stories set in Welty's special province, the rural South, with stories having a European locale. This gives a wider range to her fiction and demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short-story writers of our time. "Humorous, piquant, graceful" (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Sewanee Review).

Bride Of Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other Stories

Mariner Books

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