Readers Guides to Short Stories seriesSeries Editor: Everett EmersonEach volume in the Readers Guides to Short Stories Series is a comprehensive, critical, and historical guide to the short stories of a major author. Each volume features:-individual chapters devoted to each short story-complete information on the circumstances of the storys composition, its publication history, relationship to other works in the authors canon, scholarly interpretation, and critical status-a complete bibliography of criticism for each storyThe subject of ever-growing critical attention and admiration, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty is emerging as one of the most innovative writers of the short story of this century. This guide offers a compilation of the scholarship and commentary on the 41 stories published in Collected Stories including Petrified Man, Why I Live at the P.O., Death of a Traveling Salesman, and The Purple Hat.
