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Collected Stories of Carson McCullers

By: Carson McCullers

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Collected Stories of Carson McCullers

By: Carson McCullers

In one volume, the complete short fiction of the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, including her two most renowned novellas. Carson McCullers—novelist, dramatist, poet—was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes including loneliness in marriage and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Included in this volume are “The Member of the Wedding” and “The Ballad of the Sad Café,” novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be “assuredly among the masterpieces of our language.” “McCullers patented the Southern gothic genre that embraces grotesque, morbid characters with such pervading themes as unrequited love and wounded adolescence. Largely set in the South and richly autobiographical, her writings have endured because of their great power and originality.” —Library Journal

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054752417X

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The Mortgaged Heart

Selected Writings

By: Carson McCullers

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The Mortgaged Heart

Selected Writings

By: Carson McCullers

“Essential reading for any serious beginning writer . . . illuminating.” —San Francisco Chronicle Carson McCullers is renowned for her Southern Gothic fiction and for such modern classics as The Member of the Wedding. This collection includes an assortment of her earliest work, written mostly before she was nineteen. Included are stories, essays, articles, poems, and writing about writing—including the working outline of “The Mute,” which would become her bestselling novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter—as well as an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. As new generations continue to discover the work of Carson McCullers, this volume provides both an enjoyable read and an inspiring look at the beginning of a brilliant literary career.

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0547346832

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Collected Stories of Carson McCullers

By: Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.

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Bantam

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0553354221

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9780553354225

The Mortgaged Heart

By: Carson McCullers,Margarita G. Smith

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The Mortgaged Heart

By: Carson McCullers,Margarita G. Smith

An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute, " which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. As new generations of readers continue to discover her work, Carson McCullers's celebrated place in American letters survives more surely than ever. Edited by McCullers's sister and with a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to writers young and old.

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Random House Business

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0214652726

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9780214652721

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Member of the Wedding

By: Carson McCullers

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Member of the Wedding

By: Carson McCullers

Two classic works from one of America's superlative writers.

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Houghton Mifflin

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0547577540

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9780547577548

The Member of the Wedding

By: Carson McCullers

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The Member of the Wedding

By: Carson McCullers

A novel that became an award-winning play and a major film, and that has charmed generations of readers, The Member of the Wedding is a story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly bored with her life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin—and her own unbridled imagination—Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, even hoping to go (uninvited) on the honeymoon. This story is a marvelous study of the agony of adolescence and of wanting to be part of something larger and more accepting than yourself. The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

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McClelland & Stewart

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0735254125

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9780735254121

Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

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Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

A novel commenting on race, class, and individual responibility intertwines the stories of a dying middle-aged druggist, a corrupt old judge who cherishes his grand Southern lifestyle, the judge's orphaned grandson, and an angry Black youth in search of h

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Mariner Books

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0395929733

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9780395929735

Carson McCullers: Complete Novels (LOA #128)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Café / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers: Complete Novels (LOA #128)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Café / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic. This Library of America volume collects McCullers’s complete novels for the first time in a single-volume edition that reveals the power and breadth of her haunting vision. “McCullers’s gift,” writes Joyce Carol Oates, “was to evoke, through an accumulation of images and musically repeated phrases, the singularity of experience, not to pass judgment on it.” McCullers effortlessly conveyed the raw anguish of her characters and the weird beauty of their perceptions. Set in small Georgia towns that are at once precisely observed and mythically resonant, McCullers’s novels explore the strange, sometimes grotesque inner lives of characters who are often marginal and misunderstood. Above all, McCullers possessed an unmatched ability to capture the bewilderment and fragile wonder of adolescence. In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), one of the most extraordinary debuts in modern American literature, an enigmatic deaf-mute draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a young girl, a doctor, and a widowed owner of a small-town café. The disfiguring violence of desire is explored with shocking intensity in two shorter works, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1943). The Member of the Wedding (1946), thought by many to be McCullers’s masterpiece, hauntingly depicts a young girl’s fascination with her brother’s wedding. In 13-year-old Frankie Addams, confused, easily wounded, yet determined to survive, McCullers created her most indelible protagonist. Clock Without Hands (1960), her final novel, was completed against great odds in the midst of tremendous physical suffering. Set against the background of court-ordered school integration, it contains some of McCullers’s most forceful social criticism. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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1931082030

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Collected Stories

Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café

By: Carson McCullers

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Collected Stories

Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café

By: Carson McCullers

Wunderkind, Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland, and the Haunted Boy are among the seven stories that accompany Carson McCullers' novella

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395079829

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9780395079829

The Ballad of the Sad Café

By: Carson McCullers

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The Ballad of the Sad Café

By: Carson McCullers

Traditional Chinese edition of The Ballad of the Sad Caf, the classic collection of stories of Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

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Penguin UK

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0141183691

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9780141183695

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

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Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. "From the Paperback edition.

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0877207534

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9780877207535

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

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0553226983

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The Mortgaged Heart

Selected Writings

By: Carson McCullers

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Selected Writings

By: Carson McCullers

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618526412

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9780618526413

Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

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Reflections in a Golden Eye

By: Carson McCullers

A reprint of the 1941 novel about the sad and tragic lives of the Pendertons and the Langdons, two military couples living on an army base in the American South in the 1930s.

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0618084754

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9780618084753

Clock Without Hands (Modern Classics)

By: Carson McCullers

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Clock Without Hands (Modern Classics)

By: Carson McCullers

Impeccable ... The most impressive of her novels' Atlantic Monthly In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice, especially when he finds out the truth about his parentage. Through the eyes of these individuals Carson McCullers explores the roots of racial prejudice and the dual moralities of the town's leading whites.

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National Geographic Books

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0140083588

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9780140083583

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories

By: Carson McCullers

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By: Carson McCullers

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0553239805

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Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye

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0553354221

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The Member of the Wedding: A Play

A Library of America eBook Classic

By: Carson McCullers

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The Member of the Wedding: A Play

A Library of America eBook Classic

By: Carson McCullers

Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in other forms. The play The Member of the Wedding (1950), adapted from her 1946 novel at the urging of her close friend Tennessee Williams is, like Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a great American poem for the stage. At its center is tomboy Frankie Addams, a motherless adolescent neglected by her father and utterly bored with life in small-town Georgia until romantic longing is ignited by her older brother’s wedding. A hit on Broadway, running for more than five hundred performances, it won the Drama Critics’ Circle Award and soon inspired a film.

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1598535501

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9781598535501

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