num_pages: 324
description: In her now-famous introduction to this first collection by a then-unknown young writer from Mississippi named Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that "there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that, splendid beginning that it is, it is only the beginning." Porter was of course prophetic, and the beginning was splendid. A Curtain of Green both introduced and established Eudora Welty as in instinctive genius of short fiction, and in this groundbreaking collection, which includes "Powerhouse" and "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden," are the first great works of a great American writer.
language: English
title: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
titlecomplete: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, American, Short Story Collection, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 1147
publisher: Mariner Books