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Welty, Eudora 1909-2001

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Works: 1,215 works in 2,465 publications in 25 languages and 131,862 library holdings
Genres: Domestic fiction  Domestic fiction, American  Humorous stories  Humorous fiction  Legal stories  Historical fiction  American fiction  Short stories, American  Short stories  Feature films 
Roles: Signer, Lyricist, Honoree, Illustrator, Other, Author of introduction, Creator, Photographer
Classifications: ps3545.e6, 813.52
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87 editions published between and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 3,900 libraries worldwide
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "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.
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67 editions published between and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 3,676 libraries worldwide
In a "continuous thread of revelation" Eudora Welty sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing.
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43 editions published between and 2009 in English and French and held by 3,566 libraries worldwide
This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.
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48 editions published between and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 3,233 libraries worldwide
A Southern novel about two families who have a reunion to celebrage Grandma's ninetieth birthday.
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64 editions published between and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 2,990 libraries worldwide
In effect, an atmospheric "family album" of snap-shots as they impress the memory of a nineteen-year-old girl who visits the Mississippi delta plantation home of her numerous cousins in 1923.
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77 editions published between and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 2,624 libraries worldwide
Collects short stories by a scrutinizer of Southern life, Eudora Welty, exposing the grotesque and violent nature of the human animal.
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46 editions published between and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 2,475 libraries worldwide
Edna Earle, the owner of a hotel in a small Southern town, tells the story of her uncle's raucous murder trial.
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53 editions published between and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 2,239 libraries worldwide
Legendary figures of Mississippi's colorful past--keel-boatman Mike Fink and the dread Harp brothers--along with characters from Eudora Welty's own delightful imagination people this rollicking fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit Jamie Lockhart steals pioneer wilderness planter Clement Musgrove's beautiful daughter, Rosamond, away from a home dominated by his ugly, evil second wife, Salome. These and other characters are gathered together in a tale at once acid and gentle, wise and lighthearted, woven as much from the rough homespun of American history as the gossamer thread of fairy stories.
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16 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 2,103 libraries worldwide
In a career spanning five decades, Eudora Welty has chronicled her own Mississippi with a depth and intensity matched only by William Faulkner. One of the most influential writers of the century, her novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. Welty explores the complex abundance of southern, and particularly southern women's, lives with an artistry that Salman Rushdie has called "impossible to overpraise." Complete Novels gathers all of Welty's longer fiction in one volume for the first time. In The Robber Bridegroom (1942), based on a Grimm fairy tale, legendary figures from Mississippi's past, such as the keel-boat captain Mike Fink and the savage outlaws the Harp Brothers, mingle with Welty's own imaginings in a free-ranging and boisterous fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. The richly textured Delta Wedding (1946), set against a backdrop of rural Mississippi in the 1920s, vividly portrays the intricacies of family relationships in its account of the sprawling Fairchild clan. Edna Earle Ponder's unrestrained and delightfully absurd monologue, superb in its capturing of the rhythms of country speech, shows Welty's humor at its idiomatic best in The Ponder Heart (1954), a flight of invention culminating in a murder trial that becomes an occasion for exuberant comedy. The monumental Losing Battles (1970), composed over fifteen years, brings Welty's imaginative gifts to the largest canvas of her career, rendering a Depression-era family reunion with mythic scope and ebullient comic vigor. The volume concludes with The Optimist's Daughter (1972), a taut and moving story of a woman rediscovering the world of her childhood as she comes to terms with her father's death. Often considered her masterpiece, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1972.
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30 editions published between and 1990 in English and held by 2,093 libraries worldwide
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47 editions published between and 2011 in 7 languages and held by 2,044 libraries worldwide
Southern short stories.
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26 editions published between and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,016 libraries worldwide
"Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).
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24 editions published between and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,659 libraries worldwide
For contents, see Author Catalog.
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13 editions published between and 2002 in English and held by 1,272 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 1,226 libraries worldwide
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27 editions published between and 1990 in 3 languages and held by 1,169 libraries worldwide
A collection of stories which capture the joys and sorrows of life in the deep South.
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14 editions published between and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,030 libraries worldwide
The radiant world of Eudora Welty's art is charged by a poignant and familiar beauty, and here in a stunning book of her photographs is a dazzling record of this writer's unique and special vision. - from publisher.
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20 editions published between and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 939 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published in in English and held by 761 libraries worldwide
Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative craft, and which every fiction writer should know, such as place, voice, memory, and language. But even more important is what Welty calls "the mystery" of fiction writing-how the writer assembles language and ideas to create a work of art. Originally part of her larger work, The eye of the story, but never before published in a stand-alone volume, On writing is concise, fundamental and authoritative.
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6 editions published in in English and held by 742 libraries worldwide
"Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and William Faulkner (1897-1962) were Mississippi's foremost literary lions of the twentieth century. Their influence on American literature is immeasurable. As Faulkner's compatriot and as a fellow writer, Welty had a unique view of his work. For her comprehensive vision and for her understanding discussions of his art she is one of the most astute critics of the Faulknerian legacy." "On William Faulkner, a record of her admiration, brings together Welty's essays, lectures, and musings on Faulkner. These include such gems as her reviews of Intruder in the Dust and The Selected Letters of William Faulkner, her impassioned defense of Faulkner's work (published as a letter to the New Yorker), her comments when she presented the Gold Medal for Fiction to Faulkner at the National Institute of Arts and Letters awards ceremony in 1962, an excerpt from a letter she wrote to the novelist Jean Stafford, telling of meeting Faulkner and of going sailing with him, and the obituary of the Nobel laureate that Welty wrote for the Associated Press." "In addition, this collection reprints the cryptic postcard Faulkner wrote to Welty from Hollywood and publishes for the first time a caricature of Faulkner that Welty drew in the 1930s, about fifteen years before she met him."--BOOK JACKET.
 
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Welty, Eudora
Welty, Eudora, 1909-
Welty, Eudora Alice.
Welty, Eudora Alice 1909-2001
Welty, Eudora Alice 1909-2001 B 1986
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