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| Author | Eudora Welty |
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| Publisher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
Publication date | January 1, 1980 |
| Award | National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback) (1983) |
| ISBN | 9780151189946 |
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty is a collection of short stories by American pennerEudora Welty, first published byHoughton Mifflin in 1980. Its first paperback edition (Harvest Books) won the 1983National Book Award for Paperback Fiction.[1]
Collected Stories demonstrates the author's ability to write from the point of view of diverse characters ranging fromAaron Burr to a deaf black servant boy, a traveling salesman, eccentric Southern matrons, and countless others. The volume includes a May, 1980 preface by the author.
Barnes & Noble issued a Modern Classics edition in 2001.[2]
The collection contains all of Welty’s previously collected short fiction, as well as two previously uncollected works.[3]
Collected Stories:
Uncollected Stories:
Kirkus Reviews indicated Welty's "famous tales of Southern small-town life have only become more impressive with time," concluding thatThe Collected Stories are "a welcome gathering of an important writer's short fiction—some of which is her very best work of all".[4]
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