Books like 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.
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A journalist investigates a real-life Savannah murder and discovers a city where eccentrics, drag queens, and voodoo practitioners live alongside old-money aristocrats.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A boy and an escaped slave raft down the Mississippi River, and the journey through antebellum America becomes a moral education in empathy, freedom, and the lies of 'civilised' society.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, as seen through the eyes of his young daughter.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
The Women at the Pump
In a small Norwegian coastal town, the gossip at the pump follows Oliver, a sailor who came home crippled, and everyone else whose business is everyone's business.