Юдора Уэлти - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

Книга включает в себя роман "Дочь оптимиста", удостоенный в 1973 Пулитцеровской премии, и рассказы известной американской писательницы Юдоры Уэлти (1909-2001).

A reflective, poignant novel of independence and love from one of America's greatest contemporary Southern writers.

В книге представлено творчество двух ведущих представительниц современной прозы США. В издание включены повести: "Полуденное вино", "Тщета земная", "Бледный конь, бледный всадник", "Падающая башня" и рассказы Кэтрин Энн Портер, а также роман "Дочь оптимиста" и рассказы Юдоры Уэлти.

Among the most beloved of American writers, Eudora Welty's stories and novels have entertained us for over half a century. Here, in her memoirs, she writes with her usual candor and grace about how a writer's sensibilities are shaped. As compelling as her stories, as witty as her personality, as finely honed as her fiction, Welty's account of her life is a powerful and fulfilling read.

This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.

Рассказы этой книги дают представление о творческой эволюции и о писательской манере Юдоры Уэлти (1909-2001), для которой характерно сочетание лиризма и иронии, комического и трагического.

A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family’s preparations for her cousin Dabney’s wedding.

First published in 1949, THE GOLDEN APPLES is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband, King Maclain, disappears one day, discarding his hat on the banks of the Big Black. There's Loch Morrison, convalescing with malaria, who watches from his bedroom window as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house opposite. Meanwhile, Miss Eckhart the piano teacher, grieving the loss of her most promising pupil, tries her hand at arson.

Eudora Welty has a fine ear for dialogue and describes each of the characters in incisive, haunting prose. '...in the South,' she says, 'everybody stays busy talking all the time - they're not sorry for you to overhear their tales'. Welty deftly picks up their stories to create an unflinching potrait of everyday life in the American South and offers a deeply moving look at human nature.

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.

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.

В настоящем издании представлены повести и рассказы двух ведущих представительниц современной прозы США. Снискав мировую известность романом "Корабль дураков", Кэтрин Энн Портер предстает в однотомнике как незаурядный мастер малой прозы, сочетающий интерес к вечным темам - жизни, смерти, свободы - с умением проникать в потаенные глубины внутреннего мира персонажей. С малой прозой связаны главные творческие победы Юдоры Уэлти, виртуозного стилиста и ироничного наблюдателя человеческих драм, которыми так богата повседневность.