The Golden Apples

By Eudora Welty

Book Overview

Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. "I... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015636090X
• ISBN13: 9780156360906
• Release Date: September 1956
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A Book for Wanderers

In The Golden Apples, Welty offers a cycle of subtle, complex and often hilarious stories/myths from the fictional town of Morgana, Mississippi. Told from a variety of perspectives and voices, the cycle uses southern imagery, greek mythology (sometimes via the poetry of Yeats) and musings on art and music to narrate the history of a cast of characters either absorbed by or isolated from Morgana and the surrounding world. The reader, in assembling meaning from the flood of rich narrative becomes more than a casual observer, but a participant in the ongoing mythology of Morgana. Like Winesberg or Yoknapatawpha or even Middle Earth, Welty creates a world so complete and convincing that we can't help but immerse ourselves. And what lies in the gaps between the stories and known chronology becomes just as captivating as the story we're given. Golden Apples, in its complexity, can be a lot of work. But the payoff is huge.