"Our journey through the arc and pages of a book is often in the safe and knowing words of a narrator. But sometimes these friends, these guardians of our trust play games, they betray our literary friendship with lines on which we can’t rely. They take us into literary mazes turn characters we accept into those we mistrust, situations we know into something we can now only doubt. However, we still enjoy the journey; sometimes they make it so much fun there may be a happy ending. But often there isn’t. I did say they were unreliable. 01 - Short Stories with an Unreliable Narrator - An Introduction02 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot03 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot04 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman05 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant06 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol07 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe08 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie09 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce10 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain11 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe12 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce13 - Hearts and Hands by O Henry14 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa15 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe16 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce17 - Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty18 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson19 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 1 by Robert W Chambers20 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 2 by Robert W Chambers"
"Quando suo padre, il giudice McKelva, le comunica di dover subire un'operazione a un occhio, Laurel non esita a lasciare la sua casa di Chicago e andare a New Orleans per prendersene cura, anche se dovrà avere a che fare con la nuova moglie del giudice, Fay: una donna più giovane di lei, con un carattere duro e scostante, che secondo molti si è sposata solo per interesse. L'intervento sembra riuscito, ma il giudice – l'ottimista del titolo – stenta a guarire, e sprofonda in uno stato di prostrazione a cui seguirà una morte inaspettata. Alle due donne non resta che andare in Mississippi per seppellirlo nel cimitero di famiglia: Laurel avrà così l'occasione per fare i conti con la sua comunità di origine – lasciata forse troppo presto in cerca di una felicità e una realizzazione che hanno faticato ad arrivare – ma anche con Fay e il suo passato, e infine con un mondo che, nella sua meravigliosa testardaggine, si rifiuta di rinunciare alle proprie tradizioni. Maestra indiscussa del racconto e del romanzo di famiglia, Eudora Welty raggiunge con La figlia dell'ottimista – Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa nel 1973 – quella che rimane forse la vetta più alta della sua arte, creando, con Laurel e Fay, due tra i ritratti femminili più complessi e affascinanti che la letteratura americana abbia mai prodotto."
"Originally published in The New Yorker in 1954, The Ponder Heart is easily Eudora Welty's most comic novel, a lighthearted burlesque that rivals Caldwell's Tobacco Road for capturing rural idioms, and the novels of Mark Twain for high farce. Edna Earle, a person of large distinction in Clay County, and the talkative owner of the Beulah Hotel, tells the story of her Uncle Daniel Ponder, a local hero whose over-affection for society compels him to give everything he owns away. The disappearance of Uncle Daniel's second wife, the waifish and willowy Bonnie Dee Peacock, leads to his arrest for murder. The trial, which comprises the second half of the novel, is a masterpiece of courtroom anarchy. A cast of Dickensian characters coupled with Edna's hysterically accurate observations of small-town life, transport the reader, like a raucous family drive, to a truly original conclusion."
"Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for Dabney Fairchild's wedding. An only child whose mother has just died, Laura is resentful of her boisterous, careless cousins, and desperate for their acceptance. As the hour moves closer and closer to wedding day, Laura arrives at a more subtle understanding of both the Fairchilds and herself. Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty is one of the South's finest novelists. She won a Pulitzer in 1972 for The Optimist's Daughter. Delta Wedding is her best known work."
"This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents."
"A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and PEN Award winners."
"A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.
This anthology of tales about people in transit features Stuart Dybek's 'Pet Milk', read by Keith Szarabajka; Martha Gellhorn's 'Miami-New York', read by Joanna Gleason; Edward P. Jones' 'An Orange Line Train to Ballston', read by Sonia Manzano; Annie Proulx's 'The Trickle-Down Effect', read by James Naughton; Dorothy Thomas' 'The Getaway', read by Mia Dillon; James Thurber's 'A Ride with Olympy', read by David Rakoff; and Eudora Welty's 'No Place for You, My Love', read by Andrea Marcovicci."
"In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the uproariously multilayered ''Why I Live at the P.O.,'' the spontaneous ''Powerhouse'' and the insightful voice of women's truths in ''Petrified Man.'' Ms. Welty's reading brings immediacy and resonance to these wonderful tales."
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