The Golden Apples

The Golden Apples
First edition cover
PublisherHarcourt Brace Javanovich
Publication date1949
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages277
OCLC290903

The Golden Apples is a short story collection written by Eudora Welty, first published in 1949. The stories form an interrelated cycle, which explores the economic and social plight of the fictional Morgana Mississippi.[1] Author Katherine Anne Porter wrote the introduction to the volume.[2][3][4]

The characters in Welty's stories are influenced by classical myth, myth, and rural forklore.[5] Her appreciation of poet William Butler Yeats also informed the collection.[6]

Stories

  • "Shower of Gold" (The Atlantic, May 1948)
  • "June Recital" (Harper's Bazaar, September 1947, as "Golden Apples")
  • "Sir Rabbit" (The Hudson Review, Spring 1949)
  • "Moon Lake" (The Sewanee Review, Summer 1949)
  • "The Whole World Knows" (Harper's Bazaar, March 1947)
  • "Music from Spain" (limited edition by The Levee Press, June 1948)
  • "The Wanderers" (Harper's Bazaar, March 1949, as "The Hummingbirds")

Retrospective appraisal

Reexamining the collection in 2011, The Independent critic David Evans described the collection as evocative, "But it is her vivid evocations of nature that linger."[1] Another 2011 review in The Guardian wrote that the collection is "brilliantly capturing the precise timbre of a fleeting moment and revealing its startling load."[7]

Critic Pierpont, Claudia Roth reports that "the complex and deeply moving" "June Recital" was "the most personally meaningful of all her stories...which became the centerpiece" of the collection.[8]

Literary critic Daniele Pitavy-Souques regards The Golden Apples as "the central book" in Welty's body of fiction.[9]

Theme

The stories use shared themes and other literary devices to ensure that the stories operate as a unified whole.[10] One reviewer noted that "Allusion and metaphor hang as thick as Spanish moss in Welty's prose."[7]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "The Golden Apples, By Eudora Welty". The Independent. August 20, 2011. Archived from the original on June 18, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Welty, 2001 p. viii: Preface
  3. ↑ Johnston, 1997 p. 27: "...the interconnected stories of The Golden Apples..." And: p. 74: "...a grouping of interconnected stories..."
  4. ↑ Marrs, 2005 p. 159: "...interlocking stories..."
  5. ↑ Johnston, 1997 p. 62
  6. ↑ Marrs, 2005 p. 23
  7. 1 2 Ransley, Lettie (September 3, 2011). "The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  8. ↑ Pierpont, 1998
  9. ↑ Johnston, 1997 p. 179
  10. ↑ V. HARRIS, Wendell (Spring 1964). "The Thematic Unity of Welty's The Golden Apples". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 6 (1): 92–95. JSTOR 40753802.

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