An unnamed writer remembers living in New York City in the United States of America during World War II. He becomes friends with one of his neighbors, the beautiful yet strange, Holly Golightly. Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language....

Книга организована по принципу билингвы: произведение опубликовано на языке оригинала с параллельным переводом на русский язык. Холли Голайтли — девушка с непростой судьбой. Рано оставшись без родителей, она стремится пробиться в жизни с помощью расположения мужчин. Нет, она не торгует своим телом, просто пытается заработать красотой и молодостью....

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down....

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany\"s, are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season Selected from across Capote\"s writing life, they range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter....

\"The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .\" Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back....

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not. This mesmerizing profile of an insecure, vulnerable young Marlon Brando, brooding in a Kyoto hotel during a break from filming, is a peerless piece of journalism....

Breakfast at Tiffany's tells the improbable story of a young woman who attracts men the way that moths are attracted to a flame. What is the attraction of this woman?Today she is regarded at the epitome of elegance and style. ...

Breathtaking... The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled\" Andrew Johnson, IndependentWritten when Truman Capote was in his teens and twenties, these......

Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at......

In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover\"s eyes. Best friends on the Upper East Side discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these......

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom....

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany\"s; her poignancy, wit, and naivete continue to charm....

Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Cote Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses....

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the......

P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored....