Bücher von Eudora Welty

These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. 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).

Legendary figures of Mississippi's past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty's own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale. ?For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful? (New Yorker).

Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. ?I doubt that a better book about 'the South'-one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written? (New Yorker).

This is the first collection of Welty's stories, originally published in 1941. It includes such classics as ?A Worn Path,? ?Petrified Man,? ?Why I Live at the P.O.,? and ?Death of a Traveling Salesman.? The historic Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter brought Welty to the attention of the american reading public.

Immer wieder sind es die kleinen Leute der Südstaaten, die Ausgestoßenen und Außenseiter, für die sich Welty interessiert: der schwarze Junge, der auf dem Jahrmarkt einem sensationshungrigen Publikum als Indianermädchen vorgeführt wird; das taubstumme Paar, das seit Jahrzehnten wartet und vergessen hat, worauf; die Witwe, die sich zurückgezogen hat und nur noch hinter den Hecken und Bäumen ihres Gartens - einem Vorhang aus Grün - lebt. Welty gilt vielen nicht nur als die große Südstaaten-Autorin, sondern darüber hinaus als eine der besten US-amerikanischen Schriftstellerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. »Ein Vorhang aus Grün« vereint zwanzig Erzählungen - eine willkommene Gelegenheit, die hierzulande viel zu wenig bekannte Autorin wiederzuentdecken.

Written late In life, "The Optimist's Daughter" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and autobiographical short novel written that finds the author coming to grips with her father's death--and that of her own childhood.

A Depression-era comic masterpiece, E. P. O'Donnell's The Great Big Doorstep centers on the Crochets, a Cajun family who live in a ramshackle house between the levee and the Mississippi River. It has remained a literary and cultural classic since its publication in 1941.

Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. This collection of her book reviews manifests the connecting of her penetrating eye with her responsive intellect in forming sympathetic judgments of the books she reviewed.