The eye of the story
Subtitle: selected essays and reviews
By: Eudora Welty
Contributors: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, autographer; Iola S. Haverstick Collection
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Fiction; Technique; Literature; History and criticism
Notes: "Of the first edition of THE EYE OF THE STORY three hundred copies have been specially printed and bound, and signed by the author."

Issued in slipcase

Rare Book copy: In slipcase as issued.

Gift; Iola S. Haverstick; 2002.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: On writers:; title: The radiance of Jane Austen --; title: Henry Green: novelist of the imagination --; title: Katherine Anne Porter: the eye of the story --; title: The house of Willa Cather --; title: Reality in Chekhov's stories -- -- 2.; title: On writing:; title: Looking at short stories --; title: Writing and analyzing a story --; title: Place in fiction --; title: Words into fiction --; title: Must the novelist crusade? --; title: "Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?" --; title: Some notes on time in fiction -- -- 3.; title: Reviews:; title: The Western journals of Washington Irving  -- edited and annotated by John Francis McDermott; title: Names on the land  -- by George R. Stewart; title: Granite and rainbow  -- by Virginia Woolf; title: The letters of Virginia Woolf, volume II  -- edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joann Trautmann; title: Charlotte's web  -- by E.B. White; title: Intruder in the dust  -- by William Faulkner; title: Selected letters of William Faulkner  -- edited by Joseph Blotner; title: Marianne Thornton  -- by E.M. Forster; title: The life to come, and other stories  -- by E.M. Forster; title: The most of S.J. Perelman; Baby, its cold inside  -- by S.J. Perelman; title: The saddest story: a biography of Ford Madox Ford  -- by Arthur Mizener; title: The underground man  -- by Ross Macdonald; title: Last tales  -- by Isak Dinesen; title: The cockatoos  -- by Patrick White; title: Pictures and conversations  -- by Elizabeth Bowen -- 4.; title: Personal and occasional pieces:; title: A sweet devouring --; title: Some notes on river country --; title: Fairy tale of the Natchez Trace --; title: A pageant of birds --; title: The flavor of Jackson --; title: The little store --; title: Ida M'Toy --; title: One time, one place.