Eudora Welty (1986), by noted literary scholars Harold Bloom and William Golding, provides biographical and critical overviews to aid the student of Welty's novels and short stories.
Fellow Mississippian William Faulkner's 1930 As I Lay Dying is the story of a poor southern family on a journey to bury their mother. While this book touches on some of the same issues as Losing Battles (such as death and family relationships), Faulkner's treatment of these themes is dramatically different from Welty's.
Flannery O'Connor's The Complete Stories (1996) provides a comprehensive look at the short.....
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