The Eye of the Story
Selected Essays and Reviews
$32.61
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
29 August 1990
Summary
Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer’s Beginnings, The Eye of the Story offers Eudora Welty’s invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers, including Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679730040 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679730044 |
| Author: | Eudora Welty |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 1990 |
| Weight: | 309g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 135mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“In criticism as in fiction, Miss Welty’s observations are blessed with a dazzling accuracy.” – The Nation
“Makes the relationship between reading and writing extraordinarily close.” – The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Eudora Welty
One of America’s most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is the author of, among many other books, One Writer’s Beginnings, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist’s Daughter which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. She died in 2001.
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