The writer Eudora Welty, who grew up in and wrote about the Deep South,
reminds us that“feelings are bound up with place.”.
Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the'most perfect, the most characteristic,
the most eminently quintessential of its author's works,' and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as'irresistible
and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.'".
Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the“most perfect, the most characteristic,
the most eminently quintessential of its author's works,” and Eudora Welty in the twntieth century described it as“irresistible
and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.”.