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The Ponder Heart
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780156729154
ISBN: 0156729156
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: October 18, 1967
Publisher: Harvest Books
Studio: Harvest Books
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Editorial Review:
Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of vexation for his niece, Edna Earle. Uncle Daniel’s trial for the alleged murder of his seventeen-year-old bride is a comic masterpiece. Awarded the William Dean Howells Medal of the american Academy of Arts and Letters. Drawings by Joe Krush.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Heart of the Ponders
People love a holy fool -- Prince Myshkin, Innocent Smith, Elwood P. Dowd.
And one of the more lovable ones is Daniel Ponder, whom his niece describes as "just like your uncle, if you've got one -- only he has one weakness." Actually his weaknesses seem to be excessive friendliness and generosity -- and that's what indirectly sparks off this arch, slightly madcap little murder trial.
Edna Earle runs a hotel in a small Southern town called Clay, and helps take care of her ... Read More
Rating: - Keen observations and exquisite, humorous Southern writing.
"The South impresses its image on the Southern writer from the moment he is able to distinguish one sound from another," Flannery O'Connor wrote in her 1963 essay "The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South," and Eudora Welty expressed a similar sentiment roughly 20 years later in her
memoir "One Writer's Beginnings," when she wrote that ever since she had first been read to, and then started to read herself, there had never been a line that she had not *heard* as her eyes followed the words ... Read More
Rating: - Almost slapstick funny
If you like southern writers, if you like Eudora Welty, if you like eccentric characters, if you like a little slapstick in your novels, don't miss this one.
Uncle Daniel goes down in literary history as one of the most engaging and memorable of all characters as he 'just loves to give things away, loves to make people happy.' And, oh, the trouble he causes with his largesse!
Read it and laugh.
Rating:  - Funny little snip of a book
This is a cute little book that's very easy to read. I found myself identifying with both the narrator, Edna Earle, and Uncle Daniel. If you're looking for a book that's easy on the brain, then this is the one for you.
Rating: - Edna Earl Tells All There Is To Know About The Ponder Heart
Eudora Welty possessed a remarkable talent for crawling into the skin of her characters--and Edna Earl Ponder is one of her most astonishing creations. Like her widely anthologized short story "Why I Live at the P.O.," Welty's short novel THE PONDER HEART is written as a monologue, giving the reader the unexpected sensation of sitting across the front porch from Edna Earl herself as she determinedly relates the story of how her eccentric Uncle Daniel unexpectedly found himself on trial for murder in their ... Read More
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