Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart
| By: | Eudora Welty |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780547555645 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780544935341 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2011 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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These two classic novels by the Pulitzer Prize winning author depict 20th century Southern life " with infinite finesse" ( The Christian Science Monitor). Set in 1923, Eudora Welty's first novel, The Delta Wedding, centers around the Fairchild family and their preparations for a wedding at their Mississippi plantation. Drama leads to drama, and the result is a surprising portrait of a large and clamorous Southern family that is "nothing short of riotous" ( The New Yorker). In The Ponder Heart, Daniel Ponder of Clay County, Mississippi, is giving away family heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the family fortune from Daniel's mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves her Uncle Daniel, she's decided to have him institutionalized in this "wonderful tragicomedy" ( The New York Times).