Delta Wedding And The Ponder Heart

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544935341

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Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty Pdf

These two classic novels by the Pulitzer Prize winning author depict 20th century Southern life “with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). Set in 1923, Eudora Welty’s first novel, The Delta Wedding, centers around the Fairchild family and their preparations for a wedding at their Mississippi plantation. Drama leads to drama, and the result is a surprising portrait of a large and clamorous Southern family that is “nothing short of riotous” (The New Yorker). In The Ponder Heart, Daniel Ponder of Clay County, Mississippi, is giving away family heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the family fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves her Uncle Daniel, she’s decided to have him institutionalized in this “wonderful tragicomedy” (The New York Times).

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015020642214

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Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty Pdf

In effect, an atmospheric "family album" of snap-shots as they impress the memory of a nineteen-year-old girl who visits the Mississippi delta plantation home of her numerous cousins in 1923.

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : HMH
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1967-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547543925

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The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty Pdf

“A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she’s decided to have him institutionalized. Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink—one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It’s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it. “The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,” said the New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart—a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series—as “Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.”

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-09
Category : Delta (Miss. : Region)
ISBN : OCLC:733736680

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Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty Pdf

Delta Wedding

Author : Reine Dugas Bouton
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789042024359

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Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding by Reine Dugas Bouton Pdf

Presenting the first full-length collection of essays on Eudora Welty's novel, Delta Wedding (1946), this volume is the fourth book in Rodopi Press's Dialogue Series. Within these pages, emerging and experienced literary critics engage in an exciting dialogue about Welty's noted novel, presenting a wide range of scholarship that focuses on feminist concerns, pays tribute to the rhetoric of exclusion and empowerment, examines the role of outsider and boundaries, explores meaning-making, and highlights the novel's humor and musicality. This volume will no doubt be of interest to Welty aficianados as well as southern studies and feminist scholars and to those who are interested in the craft of writing fiction.

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015045640441

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Eudora Welty: Complete Novels (LOA #101) by Eudora Welty Pdf

Complete Novels, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battle, The Optimist's Daughter.

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787989

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Losing Battles by Eudora Welty Pdf

Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales.

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : HMH
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547538686

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Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty Pdf

This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter’s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is “nothing short of wonderful” (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156729156

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The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty Pdf

Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of vexation for his niece, Edna Earle. Uncle Daniel's trial for the alleged murder of his seventeen-year-old bride is a comic masterpiece. Awarded the William Dean Howells Medal of the american Academy of Arts and Letters. Drawings by Joe Krush.

Author : Noel Polk
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 1617033820

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Eudora Welty--a bibliography of her work by Noel Polk Pdf

Author : Jennifer Lynn Randisi
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819124524

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A Tissue of Lies by Jennifer Lynn Randisi Pdf

A study linking the novels of Eudora Welty to a tradition of Southern romance writers. Beginning with the Civil War diarists, the author isolates and defines the components of the Southern romance, tracing Welty's adaptation of each component within the novels themselves and revealing a twofold importance: it connects the literature of the Civil War diarists to the work of Eudora Welty in a meaningful way while illuminating her work in the light of a Southern Romance tradition.

Author : Elaine Showalter,Lea Baechler,A. Walton Litz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780020820253

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Modern American Women Writers by Elaine Showalter,Lea Baechler,A. Walton Litz Pdf

Featuring original contributions by scholars in the field of women's studies, this invaluable reference illuminates the lives and works of Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Joan Didion, Anne Tyler, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and others.

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Families
ISBN : OCLC:1054956680

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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty Pdf

Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.

Author : Susan Castillo Street,Charles L. Crow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137477743

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic by Susan Castillo Street,Charles L. Crow Pdf

This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern Gothic’ is now a richer, more complex subject. Thirty-five distinguished scholars explore the Southern Gothic, under the categories of Poe and his Legacy; Space and Place; Race; Gender and Sexuality; and Monsters and Voodoo. The essays examine slavery and the laws that supported it, and stories of slaves who rebelled and those who escaped. Also present are the often-neglected issues of the Native American presence in the South, socioeconomic class, the distinctions among the several regions of the South, same-sex relationships, and norms of gendered behaviour. This handbook covers not only iconic figures of Southern literature but also other less well-known writers, and examines gothic imagery in film and in contemporary television programmes such as True Blood and True Detective.

Author : Carolyn Perry,Mary Weaks-Baxter
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807127531

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The History of Southern Women's Literature by Carolyn Perry,Mary Weaks-Baxter Pdf

Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several. Designating a writer as “southern” if her work reflects the region’s grip on her life, Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks have produced an invaluable guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of southern women’s literature. Their comprehensive history—the first of its kind in a relatively young field—extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences. The History of Southern Women’s Literature allows readers both to explore individual authors and to follow the developing arc of various genres across time. Conduct books and slave narratives; Civil War diaries and letters; the antebellum, postbellum, and modern novel; autobiography and memoirs; poetry; magazine and newspaper writing—these and more receive close attention. Over seventy contributors are represented here, and their essays discuss a wealth of women’s issues from four centuries: race, urbanization, and feminism; the myth of southern womanhood; preset images and assigned social roles—from the belle to the mammy—and real life behind the facade of meeting others’ expectations; poverty and the labor movement; responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the influence of Gone with the Wind. The history of southern women’s literature tells, ultimately, the story of the search for freedom within an “insidious tradition,” to quote Ellen Glasgow. This teeming volume validates the deep contributions and pleasures of an impressive body of writing and marks a major achievement in women’s and literary studies.