title: Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Modern Library)
author:  Eudora Welty 
description: 's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. I've stayed in one place,' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination.' Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. Linking them all is Welty's remarkable ear for the language and point of view of the South. 'She's a lot smarter than her cousins in Beula,' someone remarks about a reputed suicide in one story. 'Especially Edna Earle, that never did get to be what you'd call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the 'c' got through the 'I' in a Coca-Cola sign." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone fr
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  # The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
  
  
  ## Eudora Welty
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  [Title Page](titlepage.xml)
  
  
  [Table of Contents](toc.xml)
  
  
  [...](front01.xml)
  
  
  [Copyright](front02.xml)
  
  
  [Dedication](front03.xml)
  
  
  [Preface](front04.xml)
  
  
  [Contents](front05.xml)
  
  
  [A Curtain of Green and Other Stories](c001.xml)
  
  
  [LILY DAW AND THE THREE LADIES](c01.xml)
  
  
  [A PIECE OF NEWS](c02.xml)
  
  
  [PETRIFIED MAN](c03.xml)
  
  
  [THE KEY](c04.xml)
  
  
  [KEELA, THE OUTCAST INDIAN MAIDEN](c05.xml)
  
  
  [WHY I LIVE AT THE P.O.](c06.xml)
  
  
  [THE WHISTLE](c07.xml)
  
  
  [THE HITCH-HIKERS](c08.xml)
  
  
  [A MEMORY](c09.xml)
  
  
  [CLYTIE](c10.xml)
  
  
  [OLD MR. MARBLEHALL](c11.xml)
  
  
  [FLOWERS FOR MARJORIE](c12.xml)
  
  
  [A CURTAIN OF GREEN](c13.xml)
  
  
  [A VISIT OF CHARITY](c14.xml)
  
  
  [DEATH OF A TRAVELING SALESMAN](c15.xml)
  
  
  [POWERHOUSE](c16.xml)
  
  
  [A WORN PATH](c17.xml)
  
  
  [The Wide Net and Other Stories](c002.xml)
  
  
  [FIRST LOVE](c18.xml)
  
  
  [THE WIDE NET](c19.xml)
  
  
  [A STILL MOMENT](c20.xml)
  
  
  [ASPHODEL](c21.xml)
  
  
  [THE WIN