The Golden Apples

Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. ?I doubt that a better book about 'the South'-one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written? (New Yorker).

About the author

EUDORA WELTY (1909–2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and attended the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University (where she studied advertising). In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Summary

Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. “I doubt that a better book about ‘the South’-one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written” (New Yorker).

Product details

• Authors: Eudora Welty
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.1956
• EAN: 9780156360906
• ISBN: 978-0-15-636090-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 271 g
• Series: Harvest Book; Harvest Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Short Stories, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION: Feminist, FICTION: City Life, FICTION: World Literature / American / General, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales