{"product_id":"9781883011550","title":"Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, \u0026 Memoirs (LOA #102): A Curtain of Green \/ The Wide Net \/ The Golden Apples \/ The Bride of Innisfallen\/ selected essays \/ One Writer's Beginnings","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eWelty, Eudora; Ford, Richard; Kreyling, Michael\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLibrary of America\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8\/1\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eIn this volume along with its companion, The Library of America presents all of the most significant and best-loved works of Eudora Welty. Of her own work, she wrote: “What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself. Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set most high.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStories, Essays and Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e presents Welty’s collected short stories, an astonishing body of work that has made her one of the most respected writers of short fiction. \u003ci\u003eA Curtain of Green and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1941), her first book, includes many of her most popular stories, such as “A Worn Path.” “Powerhouse,” and the farcical “Why I Live at the P.O.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wide Net and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1943), in which historical figures such as Aaron Burr (“First Love”) and John James Audubon (“A Still Moment”) appear as characters, shows her evolving mastery as a regional chronicler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Golden Apples\u003c\/i\u003e (1946) is a series of interrelated stories about the inhabitants of the fictional town of Morgana, Mississippi. It was Welty’s favorite among her books, and she described it as “an experience in a writer’s own discovery of affinities. In writing, as in life, the connections of all sorts of relationships and kinds lie in wait of discovery, and give out their signals to the Geiger counter of the charged imagination, once it is drawn into the right field.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories of \u003ci\u003eThe Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1955) are set both in the American South and in Europe. Also included are two stories from the 1960s, “Where Is the Voice Coming From?”, based on the shooting of Medgar Evers, and “The Demonstrators.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA selection of nine literary and personal essays includes evocations of the Jackson, Mississippi, of her youth that is essential to her work (“The Little Store,” “A Sweet Devouring”) and cogent discussions of literary form (“Writing and Analyzing a Story,” “Place in Fiction”). The volume concludes with \u003ci\u003eOne Writer’s Beginnings\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), the sensitive memoir of her childhood, which has become one of the most widely read of her books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176500343039,"sku":"9781883011550","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781883011550_s600x595.jpg?v=1775594754","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781883011550","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}