"Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial politics in the world of Jim Crow Mississippi; the beloved classic...

After a hurricane, the residents of a town on the Gulf Coast must cope with reconstruction--and with their own feelings about the disaster and each other.

A collection of nine short stories explores the emotional fault lines that lie just beneath the surface of happy family life.

"Disturbed American woman, living in Rome, is haunted by the spectre of her ex-husband and avoids the American colony, as she carries on discreet little affairs." --

It is well known that New Orleans has its dark underside as well as its glowing visible delights. The journey that Julia Garrett, an intelligent, attractive, but psychically driven girl, makes through the city's hidden labyrinth shapes the movement of this riveting novel. In crisscrossing the city from the secure world of home in the Garden District to the titillating world of the Vieux Carré, Julia risks physical and psychological peril. As she...

Thirty-three stories, ordered as they were written, which provide a "personal road" through Mississippi, New Orleans, Italy, Montreal, and the secret landscape of the heart.