Books like 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.
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A Curtain of Green
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.
The Ponder Heart
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs the hotel in Clay, Mississippi, talks a stranger's ear off about her generous, childlike Uncle Daniel, his marriages and the trial that has the whole town watching.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bowlaway
At the turn of the twentieth century, a woman named Bertha Truitt is found unconscious in a Massachusetts cemetery with a bowling ball and fifteen pounds of gold, and goes on to found a candlepin alley that outlasts her.
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.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford comes back to her Florida town and tells her friend the story of her three marriages, from a loveless arranged match to a short, joyous, doomed love in the Everglades.
The Dog of the South
Ray Midge of Little Rock follows his runaway wife, her ex-husband and his stolen Ford Torino to Honduras, picking up a broken-down con man named Dr. Reo Symes along the way.
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.
I Want To Show You More
Linked stories about faith, marriage, and desire in the American South, where Protestant conscience collides with carnal longing.