A Collection | Paperback | With a new Introduction by best-selling author Ann Patchett, this National Book Award-winning collection is one of the truly great works of twentieth-century American literature. Eudora Welty's Collected Stories confirms her place as a contemporary master of short fiction. Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story. The forty-one pieces collected here, written over a period of three decades, include "A Petrified Man," "Why I Live at the P.O.," "The Wide Net," and "The Bride of Innisfallen."