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Series: Modern Library
Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; 2002 Modern Library Ed edition (September 24, 2002)
Eudora Welty was an icon of twentieth century literature. Her work reprinted here is straight out of my literary criticism classes of the sixties. All essays were originally published in the sixties and seventies. This book is useful for the student of literary criticism. It is NOT useful for the student of writing technique, characterization, short stories, plot development, use of place and time.
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It is unfortunate that most readers who make their way to this page will be writers for this collection of Eudora Welty's essays on the craft of writing is not just for writers. Readers, too, will find wisdom and insight here. Wisdom to apply to their own lives. Insight into Welty's other works. That The Modern Library collected them is a gift in and of itself. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "Harkening"
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One of American's greatest writers Eudora Welty captured a world long gone. In her book On Writing she attempts to share the insight to her life's profession. Writers write and all others makes excuses, Welty was creative and wrote about what she knows. What makes this book amazing; you get a sense that Welty is right there next to you, encouraging you to put your words on paper. Coming up with a good story, taking the leap into fiction and how do you do it? That's it, you simply do it.
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