Delta Wedding

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547538685
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Delta Wedding written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1979-03-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter’s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is “nothing short of wonderful” (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.

Delta Wedding

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784971669
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Delta Wedding written by Eudora Welty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog. Its real name was the Yazoo-Delta. It was a mixed train. The day was the 10th of September, 1923 – afternoon. Laura McRaven, who was nine years old, was on her first journey alone. Laura McRaven travels down the Delta to attend her cousin Dabney's wedding. At the Fairchild plantation her family envelop her in a tidal wave of warmth, teases and comfort. As the big day approaches, tensions inevitably rise to the surface.

Delta Wedding

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156252805
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Delta Wedding written by Eudora Welty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1979 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a large Southern family living on their plantation in the Mississippi delta land in 1923.

Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042024356
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding written by Reine Dugas Bouton and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the first full-length collection of essays on Eudora Welty's novel, Delta Wedding (1946), this volume is the fourth book in Rodopi Press's Dialogue Series. Within these pages, emerging and experienced literary critics engage in an exciting dialogue about Welty's noted novel, presenting a wide range of scholarship that focuses on feminist concerns, pays tribute to the rhetoric of exclusion and empowerment, examines the role of outsider and boundaries, explores meaning-making, and highlights the novel's humor and musicality. This volume will no doubt be of interest to Welty aficianados as well as southern studies and feminist scholars and to those who are interested in the craft of writing fiction.

The Ponder Heart

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547543921
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Ponder Heart written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1967-10-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she’s decided to have him institutionalized. Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink—one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It’s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it. “The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,” said the New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart—a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series—as “Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.”

Losing Battles

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787982
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Losing Battles written by Eudora Welty and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales.

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156189217
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty written by Eudora Welty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1980 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. These stories are honest, and vastly entertaining.

One Time, One Place

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878058662
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book One Time, One Place written by Eudora Welty and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration.

The Bride of the Innisfallen

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544105516
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Bride of the Innisfallen written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of classic American southern literature. Combining stories set in the rural south, Eudora Welty’s own special province, and stories with a European locale, which give a wider range to her fiction, The Bride of Innisfallen demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short story writers of our time. The gentle wit of the title story, the grave and musical prose of “Circe,” a retelling of Greek myth, the acute character portrayal and extraordinary evocation of the steamy bayou county in “No Place for You, My Love” are all touched with the particular magic that has made Welty one of America’s most beloved storytellers. “The writing throughout is at Ms. Welty’s best level.” —Edward Weeks, The Atlantic

Tell about Night Flowers

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617031887
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Tell about Night Flowers by : Julia Eichelberger

Download or read book Tell about Night Flowers written by Julia Eichelberger and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, and The Golden Apples. During this period, she also wrote hundreds of letters to two friends who shared her love of gardening. One friend, Diarmuid Russell, was her literary agent in New York; the other, John Robinson, was a high school classmate and an aspiring writer who served in the Army in WWII, and he was long the focus of Welty’s affection. Welty’s lyrical, witty, and poignant discussions of gardening and nature are delightful in themselves; they are also figurative expressions of Welty’s views of her writing and her friendships. Taken together with thirty-five illustrations, they form a poetic narrative of their own, chronicling artistic and psychic developments that were underway before Welty was fully conscious of them. By 1949 her art, like her friendships, had evolved in ways that she would never have predicted in 1940. Tell about Night Flowers not only lets readers glimpse Welty in her garden; it also reveals a brilliant and generous mind responding to the public events, people, art, and natural landscapes Welty encountered at home and on her travels during the 1940s. This book enhances our understanding of the life, landscape, and art of a major American writer.

The Robber Bridegroom

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547544375
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Robber Bridegroom written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1978-11-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter—only to kidnap the planter’s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It’s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures. With legendary figures of Mississippi’s past—including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers—mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author’s own imagination, The Robber Bridegroom in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is “a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style” (The New York Times). “As sly and irresistible as anything in Candide. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.” —The New Yorker

The Optimist's Daughter

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Optimist's Daughter written by Eudora Welty and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.

Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820344338
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race by : Harriet Pollack

Download or read book Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race written by Harriet Pollack and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race, or even that she was perhaps ambivalent toward racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race, the color line, and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views about the patterns, insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness. Contributors to this volume show that Welty addressed whiteness and race in her earliest stories, her photography, and her first novel, Delta Wedding. In subsequent work, including The Golden Apples, The Optimist's Daughter, and her memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, she made the color line and white privilege visible, revealing the gaping distances between lives lived in shared space but separated by social hierarchy and segregation. Even when black characters hover in the margins of her fiction, they point readers toward complex lives, and the black body is itself full of meaning in her work. Several essays suggest that Welty represented race, like gender and power, as a performance scripted by whiteness. Her black characters in particular recognize whiteface and blackface as performances, especially comical when white characters are unaware of their role play. Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race also makes clear that Welty recognized white material advantage and black economic deprivation as part of a cycle of race and poverty in America and that she connected this history to lives on either side of the color line, to relationships across it, and to an uneasy hierarchy of white classes within the presumed monolith of whiteness. Contributors: Mae Miller Claxton, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Sarah Ford, Jean C. Griffith, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Harriet Pollack, Keri Watson, Patricia Yaeger.

The Optimist's Daughter

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787311
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Optimist's Daughter written by Eudora Welty and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.

The Wide Net and Other Stories

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0156966107
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book The Wide Net and Other Stories written by Eudora Welty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1974 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories which capture the joys and sorrows of life in the deep South.

Eudora Welty: Complete Novels (LOA #101)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Eudora Welty: Complete Novels (LOA #101) written by Eudora Welty and published by . This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Novels, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battle, The Optimist's Daughter.

Eudora Welty

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Eudora Welty written by Eudora Welty and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together in one volume are 250 representative photographs from the collection of a few thousand which Eudora Welty took during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. It is a dazzling record of Welty's unique and special vision.