Eudora Welty
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter-only to kidnap the planter's lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It's an impulsive...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. 'I've stayed in one place, ' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination'. Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 102
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
13) Complete novels
Author
Series
Library of America volume 101
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the USA by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English