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The Optimist's Daughter

The Optimist's Daughter

2002 ·
·3.49·7,068 Ratings ·180 Pages
“ Don't watch the clock, do what it does. Keep Going. ” ― Sam Levenson
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  • Why I Live at the P.O. and Other Stories

    1995·
    ·4.24·864 Ratings
    Eudora Welty is one of America's most distinguished writers. Her reputation rests largely on her skill and delicacy in portraying a wide range of characters, rich and poor, black and white. Her style is marked by her perception of the Southern character,
  • The Collected Stories

    1982·
    ·4.23·6,889 Ratings
    With a preface written by the author especially for this edition, this is the complete collection of stories by Eudora Welty.   Including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as we
  • Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter

    1998·
    ·4.16·250 Ratings
    This two-volume collection reveals the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired Southern writers. "Complete Novels" gathers all of Welty's longer fiction, from "The Robber Bridegroom" (1942) to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Optimist's
  • On Writing

    2002·
    ·4.06·448 Ratings
    Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successf
  • Losing Battles

    1990·
    ·3.62·406 Ratings
    On the hot, dry first Sunday of August, three generations of Granny Vaughn’s descendants gather at her home in the little town of Banner, Mississippi, to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. The celebrations take only two days, but many members of the fami
  • The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews

    1990·
    ·4.06·97 Ratings
    Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, The Eye of the Story offers Eudora Welty's invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commenta
  • One Writer's Beginnings

    1998·
    ·4.06·2,530 Ratings
    Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book.Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contribut
  • The Wide Net and Other Stories

    1974·
    ·3.96·207 Ratings
    These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In each story, Miss We
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