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The Eye of the Story

Selected Essays and Reviews

By Eudora Welty

By Eudora Welty

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Aug 29, 1990 | ISBN 9780679730040

The Eye of the Story by Eudora Welty
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About The Eye of the Story

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.

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About 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… More about Eudora Welty

Product Details

Category: Literary Criticism

Paperback | $17.95
Published by Vintage
Aug 29, 1990 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679730040
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Praise

"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

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