Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews [Hardcover]

Eudora Welty (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1978

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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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"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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 355 pages
• Publisher: Random House Inc (T); 1st edition (April 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394425065
• ISBN-13: 978-0394425061
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,560,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Feeling through fiction, July 21, 2007

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This review is from: The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews (Paperback)

Ms. Welty shows those who are desirous of writing fiction what the object and nuances are that make for a piece of good writing. If you've heard over and over again, "don't tell it; show it" then this book will help you understand what "it" looks like.
No exercises to prime the pump or brainstorming sessions here, for while those are useful for developing a skeleton, this book will help you to breathe life into your narrative.