The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty [0]
Eudora Welty
Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
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Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
LILY DAW AND THE THREE LADIES
A PIECE OF NEWS
PETRIFIED MAN
THE KEY
KEELA, THE OUTCAST INDIAN MAIDEN
WHY I LIVE AT THE P.O.
THE WHISTLE
THE HITCH-HIKERS
A MEMORY
CLYTIE
OLD MR. MARBLEHALL
FLOWERS FOR MARJORIE
A CURTAIN OF GREEN
A VISIT OF CHARITY
DEATH OF A TRAVELING SALESMAN
POWERHOUSE
A WORN PATH
The Wide Net and Other Stories
FIRST LOVE
THE WIDE NET
A STILL MOMENT
ASPHODEL
THE WINDS
THE PURPLE HAT
LIVVIE
AT THE LANDING
The Golden Apples
SHOWER OF GOLD
JUNE RECITAL
SIR RABBIT
MOON LAKE
THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS
MUSIC FROM SPAIN
THE WANDERERS
The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories
NO PLACE FOR YOU, MY LOVE
THE BURNING
THE BRIDE OF THE INNISFALLEN
LADIES IN SPRING
CIRCE
KIN
GOING TO NAPLES
Uncollected Stories
WHERE IS THE VOICE COMING FROM?
THE DEMONSTRATORS
By Eudora Welty
A HARVEST BOOK
HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY
SAN DIEGO NEW YORK LONDON
Copyright © 1980, 1966, 1963, 1955 by Eudora Welty
Copyright 1954, 1952, 1951, 1949, 1948, 1947, 1943, 1942, 1941, 1939, 1938,
1937, 1936 by Eudora Welty
Copyright renewed 1994, 1991, 1980, 1979, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1971, 1970, 1969,
1967, 1966, 1965 by Eudora Welty
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Some of the stories in this collection, a few in different form, first appeared in the
following magazines: Accent, American Prefaces, Atlantic Monthly, Decision, Harper's
Bazaar, Harper's Magazine, the Hudson Review, Levee Press of Greenville, Mississippi,
Manuscript, New Directions, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, Southern Review,
Tomorrow, and Yale Review. "No Place for You, My Love," "The Bride of the Innisfallen,"
"Kin," "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" and "The Demonstrators" first appeared in
the New Yorker.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Welty, Eudora, 1909–
The collected stories of Eudora Welty.
PZ3.W4696Co [PS3545.E6] 813'.52 80-7947
ISBN 0-15-618921-6 (Harvest: pbk.)
Printed in the United States of America
N P R S Q O
To my nieces,
Elizabeth Welty Thompson
and
Mary Alice Welty White
Preface
Without the love and belief my family gave me, I could not have become a writer to begin with. But all my stories brought together here speak with their own voice to me of a source of strength on which I leaned as well, and do lean. In the presence of the stories, taking in forty years of time, I feel the presences also of those whose support of my work made all the difference in its fate and in my life as a writer. For beyond their being written—I do know they would have been written—there is what happens to the writer's stories when they are submitted to the world of strangers.
It happened for me that the strangers—the first readers of my first stories—included Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, the editors of The Southern Review. This distinguished quarterly, between 1937 and 1939, gave space to six stories of mine. Katherine Anne Porter, when she read some of them there, sat down and wrote me a letter of encouragement. The generosity of these writers' openness to me, their critical regard when it mattered most, not to mention the long friendships that began by letter in those days, have nourished my life.
Submitting stories to The Southern Review had needed its own encouragement. That had come about when John Rood published "Death of a Traveling Salesman," my first, in Manuscript, the "little" magazine he issued from Athens, Ohio. Following my good fortune with The Southern