<div>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve read her Thirteen Stories many times, and I&rsquo;m always awed by how much comedy, pathos, satire and lyricism she manages to squeeze into her stories.&rdquo; &mdash;Sue Monk Kidd A strong sense of place&mdash;in this case Mississippi&mdash;along with often larger-than-life characterizations of ordinary folk with all their glorious eccentricities and foibles, and above all a completely distinctive voice, come together in Eudora Welty&rsquo;s fiction to offer us a world that is sometimes sad, sometimes comic, often petty, and always compassionate. Here is a baker&rsquo;s dozen of Welty&rsquo;s very best, including: &ldquo;The Wide Net,&rdquo; in which a pregnant wife threatens to drown herself, despite fear of the water, and a communal dragging of the river turns into a celebratory fish-fry; &ldquo;Petrified Man,&rdquo; revealing the savagery of small-town gossip; &ldquo;Powerhouse,&rdquo; Welty&rsquo;s prose answer to jazz improvisation and the emotional heart of the blues; and &ldquo;Why I Live at the P.O.&rdquo;, the hilariously one-sided testimony of a postmistress who believes herself wronged by her family. With her highly tuned ear and sharp insight into human behavior, Eudora Welty has crafted stories as vital and unpredictable as they are artful and enduring. &ldquo;Miss Welty has written some of the finest short stories of modern times.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Eudora Welty is one of our purest, finest, gentlest voices.&rdquo; &mdash;Anne Tyler</div>

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Thirteen Stories

<div>&ldquo;A wonderful tragicomedy&rdquo; of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he&rsquo;s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel&rsquo;s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she&rsquo;s decided to have him institutionalized. Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink&mdash;one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It&rsquo;s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it. &ldquo;The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,&rdquo; said the New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart&mdash;a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series&mdash;as &ldquo;Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.&rdquo; </div>

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The Ponder Heart

<div>This collection of short stories of the Mississippi Delta by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author is &ldquo;a work of art&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Here in Morgana, Mississippi, the young dream of other places; the old can tell you every name on every stone in the cemetery on the town&rsquo;s edge; and cuckolded husbands and love-starved piano teachers share the same paths. It&rsquo;s also where one neighbor has disappeared on the horizon, slipping away into local legend. Black and white, lonely and the gregarious, sexually adventurous and repressed, vengeful and resigned, restless and settled, the vividly realized characters that make up this collection of interrelated stories, with elements drawn from ancient myth and transplanted to the American South, prove that this National Book Award&ndash;winning writer, as Katherine Anne Porter once wrote, had &ldquo;an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork.&rdquo; &ldquo;I doubt that a better book about &lsquo;the South&rsquo;&mdash;one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life, and its special tone and pattern&mdash;has ever been written.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker</div>

The Golden Apples

<div>The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter&mdash;only to kidnap the planter&rsquo;s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It&rsquo;s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures. With legendary figures of Mississippi&rsquo;s past&mdash;including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers&mdash;mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author&rsquo;s own imagination, The Robber Bridegroom in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is &ldquo;a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style&rdquo; (The New York Times). &ldquo;As sly and irresistible as anything in Candide. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker</div>

The Robber Bridegroom

<div>The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning Southern author: &ldquo;A fine writer and a distinguished book&rdquo; (The New Yorker). When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from Mississippi as a uniquely original literary voice and a great American author. In her now-famous introduction to the collection, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that &ldquo;there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that, splendid beginning that it is, it is only a beginning.&rdquo; In this collection are many of the stories that have become acknowledged masterpieces: the hilarious over-the-top family drama that drives a small-town resentful postmistress to explain &ldquo;Why I Live at the P.O.&rdquo;; the deeply satisfying thwarting of a trio of busybodies by a &ldquo;feeble-minded&rdquo; young woman in &ldquo;Lily Daw and the Three Ladies&rdquo;; the poignant pilgrimage of elderly Phoenix Jackson in &ldquo;A Worn Path&rdquo;; and the boldly experimental and jubilantly playful literary improvisation of &ldquo;Powerhouse,&rdquo; inspired by a performance Eudora Welty saw by Fats Waller. Porter added that &ldquo;[Welty] has simply an eye and an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork.&rdquo; Like the jazz tunes Powerhouse bangs out on the piano, Welty&rsquo;s stories remain as fresh, alive, and unpredictable today as when they first appeared. &ldquo;Miss Welty&rsquo;s stories are deceptively simple. They are concerned with ordinary people, but what happens to them and the manner of the telling are far from ordinary.&rdquo;&mdash;The New Yorker</div>

A Curtain of Green

<div>This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s &ldquo;presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse&rdquo; (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter&rsquo;s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is &ldquo;nothing short of wonderful&rdquo; (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.</div>

Delta Wedding

<div>A collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of classic American southern literature. Combining stories set in the rural south, Eudora Welty&rsquo;s own special province, and stories with a European locale, which give a wider range to her fiction, The Bride of Innisfallen demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short story writers of our time. The gentle wit of the title story, the grave and musical prose of &ldquo;Circe,&rdquo; a retelling of Greek myth, the acute character portrayal and extraordinary evocation of the steamy bayou county in &ldquo;No Place for You, My Love&rdquo; are all touched with the particular magic that has made Welty one of America&rsquo;s most beloved storytellers. &ldquo;The writing throughout is at Ms. Welty&rsquo;s best level.&rdquo; &mdash;Edward Weeks, The Atlantic</div>

The Bride of the Innisfallen

<div>These two classic novels by the Pulitzer Prize winning author depict 20th century Southern life &ldquo;with infinite finesse&rdquo; (The Christian Science Monitor). Set in 1923, Eudora Welty&rsquo;s first novel, The Delta Wedding, centers around the Fairchild family and their preparations for a wedding at their Mississippi plantation. Drama leads to drama, and the result is a surprising portrait of a large and clamorous Southern family that is &ldquo;nothing short of riotous&rdquo; (The New Yorker). In The Ponder Heart, Daniel Ponder of Clay County, Mississippi, is giving away family heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the family fortune from Daniel&rsquo;s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves her Uncle Daniel, she&rsquo;s decided to have him institutionalized in this &ldquo;wonderful tragicomedy&rdquo; (The New York Times).</div>

Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart

<div>The classic short story collection of Southern life by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Optimist’s Daughter. These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the region of the Old Natchez Trace along the lower Mississippi, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In “First Love,” set in 1807, a deaf and orphaned boot-boy has a remarkable encounter with a man accused of treason, Aaron Burr. “Asphodel” ingeniously recreates a classic legend in the Old South. And the title story captures a moment in time for a pregnant woman and her young husband who has stayed out all night. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that, throughout her distinguished career, has won her numerous literary awards. "Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time." —Time</div>

The Wide Net

<div>Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award&#8211;winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is &ldquo;profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father&rsquo;s coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West Virginia back country that became a metaphor for her mother&rsquo;s sturdy independence, Eudora&rsquo;s earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture. In her vivid descriptions of growing up in the South&#8212;of the interplay between black and white, between town and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the children they taught&#8212;she recreates the vanished world of her youth with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction, capturing &ldquo;the mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory, and experience become art&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Part memoir, part exploration of the seeds of creativity, this unique distillation of a writer&rsquo;s beginnings offers a rare glimpse into the Mississippi childhood that made Eudora Welty the acclaimed and important writer she would become.</div>

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Books By Eudora Welty (10 Books)

Thirteen Stories

The Ponder Heart

The Golden Apples

The Robber Bridegroom

A Curtain of Green

Delta Wedding

The Bride of the Innisfallen

Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart

The Wide Net

One Writer's Beginnings

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