A curtain of green and other stories. Lily Daw and the three ladies -- A piece of news -- Petrified man -- The key -- Keela, the outcast Indian maiden -- Why I live at the P.O. -- The whistle -- The hitch-hikers -- A memory -- Clytie -- Old Mr. Marblehall -- Flowers for Marjorie -- A curtain of green -- A visit of charity -- Death of a traveling salesman -- Powerhouse -- A worn path -- The wide net and other stories. First love -- The wide net -- A still moment -- Asphodel -- The winds -- The purple hat -- Livvie -- At the landing -- The golden apples. Shower of gold -- June recital -- Sir Rabbit -- Moon Lake -- The whole world knows -- Music from Spain -- The wanderers -- The bride of the Innisfallen and other stories. No place for you, my love -- The burning -- The bride of the Innisfallen -- Ladies in spring -- Circe -- Kin -- Going to Naples -- Uncollected stories. Where is the voice coming from? -- The demonstrators.

This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.