The Wide Net and Other Stories

The Wide Net and Other Stories

by Eudora Welty
The Wide Net and Other Stories

The Wide Net and Other Stories

by Eudora Welty

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Overview

The classic short story collection of Southern life by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Optimist’s Daughter.

These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the region of the Old Natchez Trace along the lower Mississippi, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans.

In “First Love,” set in 1807, a deaf and orphaned boot-boy has a remarkable encounter with a man accused of treason, Aaron Burr. “Asphodel” ingeniously recreates a classic legend in the Old South. And the title story captures a moment in time for a pregnant woman and her young husband who has stayed out all night. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that, throughout her distinguished career, has won her numerous literary awards.

"Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time." —Time

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780547636917
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 03/19/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 231
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

April 13, 1909

Date of Death:

July 23, 2001

Place of Birth:

Jackson, Mississippi

Place of Death:

Jackson, Mississippi

Education:

University of Wisconsin
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