![]() "Eudora Welty is one of our purest, finest, gentlest voices and this collection is something to be treasured." -Anne Tyler, The Washington Star The stories are magnificent." -Maureen Howard, The New York Times Book Review "The richness of such talent resists a summing up.She is always honest, always just. ![]() The forty-one pieces reproduced here, written over a period of three decades, include "Petrified Man," "Why I Live at the P.O.," "The Wide Net," and "The Bride of the Innisfallen." "I have been told," Welty writes in the introduction, "both in approval and in accusation, that I seem to love all my characters." The characters that spring to life in this masterwork reveal the depth and breadth of her love. Welty wrote prolifically over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story. ![]() ![]() One of the truly great works of twentieth-century American literature, Eudora Welty's Collected Stories confirms her place as a contemporary master of short fiction. ![]()
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