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15 de oct. de 2001 · The Ponder Heart: Directed by Martha Coolidge. With Peter MacNicol, JoBeth Williams, Angela Bettis, Boyce Holleman. Uncle Daniel Ponder moves to give away his fortune, while his niece, Edna Earle, tries to tighten the reins on Daniel's generosity.
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 tiny Mississippi town.THE PONDER ...
The Ponder Heart. By Eudora Welty. November 27, 1953. The New Yorker, December 5, 1953 P. 47. Edna Earle tells about her Uncle Daniel Ponder, who would give away everything he owned if he wasn't ...
318 offers from $1.15. Comic novella by Eudora Welty, published in 1954. Cast as a monologue, it is rich with colloquial speech and descriptive imagery. The narrator of the story is Miss Edna Earle Ponder, one of the last living members of a once-prominent family, who manages the Beulah Hotel in Clay, Miss.
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The Ponder Heart (1967), a novel by American author Eudora Welty, follows Daniel Ponder who is publicly accused of murdering his wife. The story is narrated by Daniel’s niece, Edna Earle Ponder, who addresses readers personally as if they were visiting the hotel she runs in town. Like Welty’s other works, the novel focuses on themes of ...
Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she ...
David Wayne played the Broadway part of the amiable Southern gentleman who buys everybody ice cream cones and invites them all to the big murder trial. He even welcomes the out-of-town prosecutor on arrival. The prosecutor is shocked, for Uncle Daniel Ponder (Wayne) is the defendant. It seems that he one day decided that he was getting on in ...