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T H E
B E S T L O V E D S T O R I E S O F J E S S E S T U A R T
McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York City,
New York, 1982. 406 pp.
Selected with Commentary by H.
Edward Richardson.
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The Best Loved Stories of Jesse Stuart
is the work of Jesse Stuart’s
biographer, H. Edward Richardson. Of the
nearly 500 stories Stuart wrote during
his career, the book brings together
thirty-four of them, grouped into six
parts. Each part treats stories around certain
themes: Growing up in W-Hollow (5
stories); the Old People (5 stories);
the Youth (5 stories); the Characters of
W-Hollow (8 stories); the Human Comedy
(5 stories) and Epiphany (6
stories).
Richardson considered these thirty-four
tales the “cream of his enormous
output.” The highlight of the
volume is Richardson’s introductions to
each of the stories, in which he gives
the background for each, bringing
new and interesting insights into Stuart’s creative
genius.
As Richardson worked on this book, Jesse
Stuart lay in coma following a stroke,
and he never saw it published. It was
the last book of Stuart’s published
during his
lifetime.
The book
served as Richardson’s tribute to
Jesse Stuart, to a uniquely gifted
writer and poet, who brought the the
hill country of eastern
Kentucky—the land, the people and its
customs—to life for numerous
people throughout the entire world.
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