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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
Category: Classics | Series: Library of America Carson Mccullers Edition Ser.
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 ...Show more
Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers
Category: Fiction
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 injus ...Show more
Illumination and Night Glare - The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson Mccullers by Carson Mccullers; Carlos L. Dews (Contribution by)
Category: Biography | Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Ser.
More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation--the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Ballad of Sad Caf ...Show more
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE by MCCULLERS CARSON
Category: Classic Fiction
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 t ...Show more
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' Time Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye 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 ...Show more
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times 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 Ca ...Show more
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Little Clothbound Classics) by Carson McCullers
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin 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 wit ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Carson Mccullers by Carson McCullers
Category: Fiction
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: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are "The Member of the Wedding" and "The B ...Show more
The Collected Works of Carson Mccullers - A Library of America Boxed Set by Carson McCullers; Carlos L. Dews (Editor)
Category: Fiction
For the first time in one authoritative edition, the collected writings of the celebrated author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Contains: CARSON McCULLERS: Complete Novels (Library of America #128) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Member of the Wedding / The Ballad of ...Show more
The Haunted Boy (Mini Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
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.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
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 drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentl ...Show more