The Golden Apples (original 1947; edition 1956)

by Eudora Welty

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Title:	The Golden Apples
Authors:	Eudora Welty
Info:	Harvest Books (1956), Paperback, 288 pages
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The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty (1947)

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A collection of interlinked short stories. Decent book, but I'm glad I got it for free. (

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The Golden Apples

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Morgana, Mississippi, USA

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1949)

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Ésa era la señorita Snowdie MacLain.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 015636090X, Paperback)

Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. “I doubt that a better book about ‘the South’-one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written” (New Yorker).

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"Collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, published in 1949. The stories had all been published previously, and Welty added one novella-length story, "Main Families in Morgana." Symbolism from Greek mythology unifies the stories, all of which are set in the Mississippi Delta town of Morgana over a 40-year period. The hero of "Moon Lake" and the guitarist in "Music from Spain" are Perseus figures. King MacLain, the protagonist of "Shower of Gold," is a sexually adventurous Zeus figure."--Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.… (more)

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