Selected Stories of Eudora Welty, Containing All of A Curtain of Green and Other Stories and The Wide Net and Other Stories (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 290)

New York: The Modern Library, 1954. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. 1954-59 printing of Toledano 290.1, binding/jacket style 8i, 415 titles on jacket reverse, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket faintly soiled, jacket price clipped, light crease to bottom corner of single page, ink name and date on half-title page. xxiii, 289, 214 pp. Introduction by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Katherine Anne Porter. Welty also won the Pulitzer in 1973 for her novel The Optimist's Daughter. "Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. I've stayed in one place,' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination.' Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. Linking them all is Welty's remarkable ear for the language and point of view of the South. 'She's a lot smarter than her cousins in Beula,' someone remarks about a reputed suicide in one story. 'Especially Edna Earle, that never did get to be what you'd call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the 'c' got through the 'I' in a Coca-Cola sign." The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque.