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“Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?”

Book:Bride of the Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other Stories

Work

Bride of the Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other Stories

This book is a compilation of various short stories, with one of the central narratives being 'Bride of the Innisfallen'. The collection includes a range of stories that may vary in genre and thematic content. more

Author

Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was an American author renowned for her profound portrayal of life in the rural South. Her works often focus on the lives and characters of the Southern countryside, celebrated for their delicate emotions and unique narrative style. more

“Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.”

Firsts Humans Persons I Can Stories Eye Mother Reading Voice Lines My Own Sentences Inward

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”

Spirit Mother Reading Novel Information Dickens Hedonist

Author:Eudora Welty

“Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.”

World Clear Surprise Around The World Chairs Now And Then Rocking Chairs

Book:The Golden Apples

Source: The Golden Apples

“Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.”