Stories, Essays and Memoirs, Welty E

Автор: Welty E
Название: Comple Novels
ISBN: 188301154X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883011543
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Eudora Welty's novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. In this Library of America volume and its companion, Welty explores the complex abundance of southern, and particularly Southern women's, lives with an artistry that Salman Rushdie has called "impossible to overpraise." In a career spanning five decades, she chronicled her own Mississippi with a depth and intensity matched only by William Faulkner.

Complete Novels gathers all of Welty's longer fiction in one volume for the first time. In The Robber Bridegroom (1942), based on a Grimm fairy tale, legendary figures from Mississippi's past, such as the keel-boat captain Mike Fink and the savage outlaws the Harp Brothers, mingle with Welty's own imaginings in a free-ranging and boisterous fantasy set along the Natchez Trace.

The richly textured Delta Wedding (1946), set against a backdrop of rural Mississippi in the 1920s, vividly portrays the intricacies of family relationships in its account of the sprawling Fairchild clan--with their "family trait of quick, upturning smiles, instant comprehension of the smallest eddy of life in the current of the day, which would surely be entered in a kind of reckless pleasure"--and their Delta plantation Shellmound.

Edna Earle Ponder's unrestrained and delightfully absurd monologue, superb in its capturing of the rhythms of country speech, shows Welty's humor at its idiomatic best in The Ponder Heart (1954), a flight of invention culminating in a murder trial that becomes an occasion for exuberant comedy.

The monumental Losing Battles (1970), composed over fifteen years, brings Welty's imaginative gifts to the largest canvass of her career, rendering a Depression-era family reunion with mythic scope and ebullient comic vigor.

The volume concludes with The Optimist's Daughter (1972), a taut and moving story of a woman rediscovering the world of her childhood as she comes to terms with her father's death. Often considered her masterpiece, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1972.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Автор: Eudora Welty
Название: Moon Lake
ISBN: 0141196270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141196275
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the story of a summer camp in Mississippi, a surly lifeguard, a rebellious orphan girl, and the fateful day when they learn the secrets of life and death.

Автор: Welty E
Название: Collected Stories, The
ISBN: 1860495729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781860495724
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: These stories are sweet and melancholic, divulging the minor tragedies of people using black humour. The stories feature weird and wonderful characters, and Welty captures the casual absurdities and idiosyncrasies of the characters of her native South.

Автор: Welty Eudora
Название: Delta Wedding
ISBN: 1784971677 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784971670
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: First published in 1946, DELTA WEDDING is legendary American author Eudora Welty`s portrait of family life in the American South during the 1920s.

Автор: Welty, Eudora
Название: The Optimist`s Daughter
ISBN: 067972883X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679728832
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9170.00 T
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Welton, Jude
Название: Marc chagall
ISBN: 0749666501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749666507
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: A series that uncovers the life and times of some of the most important and influential artists of the modern world. It includes easy to follow chronological structure illustrated with colour and black and white contemporary photographs. It also features detailed timelines for quick reference, plus museum and gallery information.