THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EUDORA WELTY

Here are all of Welty's published stories—chiefly the contents of four previous collections: A Curtain of Green (1941), The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955). And it need hardly be said—since Welty continues to be enthusiastically anthologized and adapted (most recently in an acclaimed off-Broadway one-woman show)—that her famous tales of Southern small-town life have only become more impressive with time. But also included here are two stories from the 1960s: "Where Is the Voice Coming From?," an uncollected 1963 New Yorker story narrated by a white man out to kill a black civil-rights leader (inspired, as Welty describes in her brief, modest preface, by the shooting of Medgar Evers); and "The Demonstrators," another Sixties story of the uneasily changing South that appeared in the O. Henry Award Prize Stories 1968. A welcome gathering of an important writer's short fiction—some of which is her very best work of all.