The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
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Having cut my literary teeth on Flannery O'Connor, I pshawed "Miss Eudora" whenever she entered the conversation regarding short story writers, assuming (without having actually read her, mind you) that she wrote polite little stories of Southern manners that didn't belong on the same shelf with Flannery. I freely admit now that attitude belonged to an ignoramus of embarrassingly shallow depths. It took just one story, "The Petrified Man," to straighten me out. In fact, he...more
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Read in January, 1989
Makes for delightful teaching. Students really respond well to the stories, showing a lot of compassion and generosity to characters. In 41 Welty was erroneously tagged as a "grotesque" by Katharine Ann Porter, and that reputation is hard to avoid in the early, famous stories like "Petrified Man" and "Why I Live at the PO." They're funny tour-de-forces, innovative in voice and form. My own preference is for the later stuff; "The Bride of the Innisfallen" i...more
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty contains all the best of her life's work as a writer. Welty was not temperamentally a novelist, though her short novel The Optimist's Daughter is totally worth reading. The short story was the right form for her. This book, besides containing within it The Golden Apples (see my separate review), holds other masterpieces that will repay many re-readings. Her work gets deeper and deeper as you contemplate it. Here are some stories I particularly hope peop...more
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Read in May, 2008
Since I won't be reading this collection straight through (it's very long!) I figured I'd rate her first collection -- "A Curtain of Green" -- that starts it off, until I get back to the whole. I loved every story so far, and they certainly don't read like the first stories of a new writer. Except for a story here or there in anthologies, this is my first time reading her short stories, and I can't believe it took me this long to get to her.
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A must collection for all who like short story. She is the master. I worship her.
It's been a while since I read it, but there was a time I would study it. I was so amazed by her writing that I also bought a book on her, with anecdotes written by other authers, like Alice Munro, who was very influenced by her. I'll find the name of that book. Can't remember it.
It's been a while since I read it, but there was a time I would study it. I was so amazed by her writing that I also bought a book on her, with anecdotes written by other authers, like Alice Munro, who was very influenced by her. I'll find the name of that book. Can't remember it.
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Read in January, 1993
I may have read an earlier collection of her short stories, but if there are more here, the better. I tend to like longer pieces better than the short story, but when they are done well, they are hard to beat. These are terrific vignettes, most of them laugh-out-loud funny. Highly enjoyable.
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After hearing a review of Miss Welty's work on NPR, I thought it was time to give her read. Afterall, she is from Mississippi! The themes of the stories don't appeal to me so much, but what an incredible ability to speak in different voices and imagine stories Miss Welty demonstrates.
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Read in June, 1993
love some of the stories, can't relate to others. Admittedly, short stories don't hold much interest for me - good ones are too short to satisfy, not good ones are just not good. Eudora Welty's writing has a beautiful rhythm and ever believable characters.
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And while I'm at it, I might as well add this to the list. A great way to peruse Welty's remarkable writing. Reading them gives you a deeper understanding of the fast-diminishing world she came from and the people who call themselves Southerners.
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Of course, you know how it is with *them*... they would play the same way, giving all they've got, for an audience of one... When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.
-Eudora Welty, "Powerhouse"
-Eudora Welty, "Powerhouse"
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Miss Eudora is just the best alltime southern writer ever!! She is the rock star of southern writers. I love her compassion and rythmn and everything about her prose.
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I have never been a big fan of Eudora Welty, but my friend in high school was all about her. Her characters just seem one demensional to me, all one way or another.
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Really powerful stories set within small situations. She writes with incredible depth of character. Maybe my favorite author, certainly my best teacher.
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In deference to Flannery O'Conner and Faulkner, I have to begrudgingly say only "one of" the best of the great southern writers. But goddam.
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Stunning. One of the finest of the "Southern Writers"; a regionalist with a universal point of view. Funny, moving and very American.
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Read in June, 1968
I can't count the number of times I've read these stories. Some of the greatest writing ever committed to the page is in this book.
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Read in January, 2007
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these short stories are excellent reads (btw, i live in the south now-- sheesh). fun to compare to flannery o'connor's stories.
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I'm a huge fan of Southern writers, particularly the Southern gothics like Welty, O'Connor, and Faulkner. I love her humor.
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Well, I've been working my way through this one rather slowly (it's been at least two years), but probably for the best.
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Read in February, 1998
I have not read all of this collection, but "Why I Live at the P.O." is possibly my favorite short story of all time.
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