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A Curtain of Green : And Other Stories by Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning Southern author: “A fine writer and a distinguished book” (The New Yorker). When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from Mississippi as a uniquely original literary voice and a great American author. In her now-famous introduction to the collection, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that “there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that, splendid beginning that it is, it is only a beginning.” In this collection are many of the stories that have become acknowledged masterpieces: the hilarious over-the-top family drama that drives a small-town resentful postmistress to explain “Why I Live at the P.O.”; the deeply satisfying thwarting of a trio of busybodies by a “feeble-minded” young woman in “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies”; the poignant pilgrimage of elderly Phoenix Jackson in “A Worn Path”; and the boldly experimental and jubilantly playful literary improvisation of “Powerhouse,” inspired by a performance Eudora Welty saw by Fats Waller. Porter added that “[Welty] has simply an eye and an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tu

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Author

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

Publisher

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780151236718

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Children'S

Rating

4.08 / 5 (775 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14