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Welty's debut stories of small-town Mississippi lives: a travelling salesman, a postmistress, a Black jazz pianist, women talking on porches and in beauty parlours.
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
All four of Welty's story collections and a few uncollected pieces, from 'Why I Live at the P.O.' and 'A Worn Path' to the linked Morgana tales of The Golden Apples.
The Golden Apples
Linked stories about the inhabitants of Morgana, Mississippi, told across decades and echoing with Irish myth.
The Grass Harp
An orphaned boy, his gentle elderly cousin Dolly and her friend Catherine move into a treehouse to escape Dolly's domineering sister, and the town turns out to bring them down.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Forty-two stories, among them A Rose for Emily, That Evening Sun, Barn Burning and Dry September, set mostly in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and in the wars.
Airships
Short stories about Southern men in love and at war, from Jeb Stuart's cavalry to Vietnam, written in sentences that swing from tenderness to violence without warning.
The Hamlet
Flem Snopes, son of a barn-burning tenant farmer, takes a job clerking in Will Varner's store at Frenchman's Bend, and his family begins to take over the hamlet.
Florida
Eleven stories that circle Florida and its storms, snakes and heat, from two small sisters abandoned on an island to a mother who walks her neighbourhood at night to keep her rage in check.
The Moviegoer
A young man in 1960s New Orleans drifts through movies, affairs, and existential malaise, searching for something real in a world of surfaces.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
In a dreary Southern mill town the formidable Miss Amelia Evans opens a café after a hunchbacked stranger turns up claiming to be her cousin, until her ex-husband comes home from prison.
Malgudi Days
Stories of the people of Malgudi, a fictional town in south India: astrologers, postmen, beggars, schoolboys and their small dramas.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Porter's stories and short novels, among them Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Noon Wine and Flowering Judas, set in Texas, Mexico and the South.
Dance of the Happy Shades
Munro's first collection, fifteen stories of childhood and young womanhood in the towns of southwestern Ontario.