Here is Eudora Welty's classic portrait of a Mississippi town-where, as one inhabitant says, "time goes like a dream no matter how hard you run." In Morgana, the young think of other places and the old know every name on every stone in the cemetery at the town's edge. Young and old, black and white, married and spinster, restless or settled, the voices that make up this collection of interrelated stories prove that Welty, as Katherine Anne Porter once wrote, had "an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork." Like James Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, The Golden Apples, though it gives readers a particular time and place, is both timeless and universal.
"I doubt that a better book about 'the South'--one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life, and its special tone and pattern--has ever been written."-Original review, September 3, 1949, The New Yorker
"A work of art . . . the original creation of an invaluable artist."-The New York Times Book Review
"Miss Welty is a fine enough writer so that one does not have to find out whether or not she conforms to our preconceptions about the life she deals with. I am willing to accept her world, wherever it is; and there is nothing to do but to join her contemplations. Her own talent requires it." - Commonweal
"One must pay tribute to Miss Welty's artistry of presentation. Her stories are told with a beguiling sensitiivty" - Christian Science Monitor
"A masterhand in the medium of short fiction, who has earned a secure place at the top of the list of living storywriters." - Saturday Review of Literature
"The engaging stories so sensitively narrated are surrounded with delicacy yet with all naturalness which is indeed part of the magic of Miss Welty's artistry." - Llibrary Journal
