false 12578 1 This Library of America volume gathers all the long fiction published by the beloved Mississippi writer Eudora Welty. Throughout her long and storied career, Welty has been most famous, perhaps, for her short stories. But it's in her novels that she attempted some of her most ambitious and powerful creations: the idiosyncratic fable that is <I>The Robber Bridegroom</I>, drawing on legends, local history, folktale, and myth; the underrated, wickedly funny short novel <I>The Ponder Heart</I>; and <I>Losing Battles</I>, a familial epic 15 years in the making and begun in bits and pieces while Welty cared for her sick mother. In a strange inversion of the author's usual career trajectory, Welty's only attempt at a <I> roman à clef</I> came late in life, with the Pulitzer Prize-winning <I>The Optimist's Daughter</I>, the quiet, moving, largely autobiographical story of a woman coming to grips with her father's death. The novels alone earn Welty a place as one of the finest writers our century has produced; taken together with the Library of America companion volume, <I>Stories, Essays, & Memoir</I>, it's a body of work that William Maxwell calls "beyond human power of praising." Welty rarely strayed for long from the place of her birth, but her fiction is as capacious as the human heart itself. Like Faulkner, she has taken her own corner of Mississippi and made it encompass the world. 14863 1 8 1998 Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter (Library of America) total:54|5:28|4:15|3:3|2:5|1:3| 54 222 101 12 1 0 false true Sun Oct 19 14:20:39 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 12:19:14 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 14:20:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 19 04:56:03 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 07 13:27:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 16 06:26:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 05:50:46 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:26:06 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Fri Mar 27 10:51:46 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 10:57:06 -0700 2009 try to get a book of her photgraphs....more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 13:11:15 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 13:12:22 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 01:23:05 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 01:23:52 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sun Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Oct 14 10:37:49 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 10:38:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 23 12:29:30 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 12:38:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 30 18:50:39 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 18:51:54 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jan 25 06:35:56 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 06:40:48 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 06 19:42:56 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 19:45:43 -0700 2008 Losing Battles from this collection. Delta Wedding was especially amazing and very Jamesian. The Robber Bridgegroom was very funny (though distressingly pro-rape).]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Sat Jun 30 01:09:27 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 01:10:33 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 15:14:57 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:14:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Sep 21 21:49:49 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 21:49:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 18 13:54:07 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 13:54:07 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 14 05:24:03 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 05:24:03 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 22 20:40:25 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 20:40:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 07:37:01 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 07:54:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 11 19:23:22 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 19:23:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 17:28:30 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 17:28:30 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12578