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Books Description

With a preface written by the author especially for this edition, this is the complete collection of stories by Eudora Welty. 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 ones, these forty-one stories demonstrate Eudora Welty’s talent for writing from diverse points-of-view with “vision that is sweet by nature, always humanizing, uncannily objective, but never angry” (Washington Post). A curtain of green and other stories. Lily Daw and the three ladies — A piece of news — Petrified man — The key — Keela, the outcast Indian maiden — Why I live at the P.O. — The whistle — The hitch-hikers — A memory — Clytie — Old Mr. Marblehall — Flowers for Marjorie — A curtain of green — A visit of charity — Death of a traveling salesman — Powerhouse — A worn path — The wide net and other stories. First love — The wide net — A still moment — Asphodel — The winds — The purple hat — Livvie — At the landing — The golden apples. Shower of gold — June recital — Sir Rabbit — Moon Lake — The whole world knows — Music from Spain — The wanderers — The bride of the Innisfallen and other stories. No place for you, my love — The burning — The bride of the Innisfallen — Ladies in spring — Circe — Kin — Going to Naples — Uncollected stories. Where is the voice coming from? — The demonstrators.