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Judge McKelva ist tot, der gütigste und gerechteste Richter von ganz Mississippi. Er, der sich immer für einen Optimisten gehalten hatte, dessen Einstellung zum Leben vom Leben selbst durchaus bestätigt worden war, stirbt nach einer Augenoperation. Zu seinem Begräbnis kommen die angesehenen Familien der Kleinstadt zusammen und reden über Bridge, Rosen und Räucherschinken. Zwei Frauen nehmen die Kondolenzen entgegen: Fay, die junge Witwe, eine ...

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Nel vecchio Sud - dove i pionieri danno il nome alle città e gli indiani alle piste - ci sono tante storie quante increspature d'acqua fra le sponde del Mississippi. Di bocca in bocca vagano errabonde come commessi viaggiatori malconci, loschi autostoppisti e menestrelli, sorvolando sentieri impervi dove le vecchine si perdono in convenevoli con spettri e alligatori. Le senti frusciare, queste storie, fra i rami piangenti dei salici, oppure ri...

One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Eudora Welty's novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. In this Library of America volume and its companion, Welty explores the complex abundance of southern, and particularly Southern women's, lives with an artistry that Salman Rushdie has called "impossible to overpraise." ...

A reflective, poignant novel of independence and love from one of America's greatest contemporary Southern writers.

A portrait of family life in the American South during the 1920s, first published in 1946. From the author of "The Optimist's Daughter", which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Introduced by Michael Schmidt.

Der Räuberbräutigam erzählt die himmelschreiend komische Liebesgeschichte der schönen Rosamond und des Räubers Jamie Lockhart. Eudora Weltys Roman schlägt eine völlig neue und überbordend einfallsreiche Richtung in der Fantasy ein. Drei Reisende steigen in einem Gasthaus am Mississippi ab und teilen sich ein Bett. Am nächsten Morgen hält einer von ihnen seine Schlafgenossen für Geister und springt mit einem großen Satz aus dem Fenster. »Den ...

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In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the uproariously multilayered "Why I Live at the P.O., " the spontaneous "Powerhouse" and the insightful voice of women's truths in "Petrified Man." Ms. Welty's reading brings immediacy and resonance to these wonderful tales.

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Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and attended the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. She set most of her short stories and novels in the American South, where she was raised, exquisitely capturing the quotidien life of people from all social classes . A photographer as well, Welty's photographs from the Great Depression formed the basis for several of her sh...

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A memorable literary record that marks the encounter of two great American writers

Poems, sketches, profiles, and satires that clearly predict one of the south's comic geniuses

An eminent fiction writer's masterpieces in the book reviewer's art

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