Introducing 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....

Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics....

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding....

In a town \\\"estranged from all other places in the world\\\" lives Miss Amelia Evans. Once married but now living alone, her life changes forever when a stranger arrives on her doorstep one moonlit night in April. A poignant story of love, betrayal, and a brawl, \\\"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe\\\" is one of Carson McCullers\" finest works....

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was Carson McCullers\" first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a......

In a small town in the American South, four men, young and old, consider their pasts and their futures. J.T.Malone, a lonely middle-aged drugstore owner, discovers he is dying and tries to atone for his misspent life....

\"The Mortgaged Heart\" is an important collection of Carson McCullers\' 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....

Frankie y la boda es el relato de las ilusiones y decepción de una niña de doce años ante la boda de su hermano mayor, un finísimo análisis de la crisis de la entrada a la pubertad, aguzada en este caso......

Carson McCullers's THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE explores what it means to love and to be loved from the perspective of a bizarre romantic triangle. Cross-eyed, masculine Miss Amelia Evans, owner of the general store in a small town, marries Marvin Macy, who adores her....

Often cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers\" prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three....

Five people’s dreams, obsessions and failures weave and interweave in Carson McCullers’s atmospheric novel of life in a peace-time army camp. In the American Deep South is a fort that contains a group of men and women trapped in a stifling and repetitive existence....

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater....

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother\"s wedding....