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'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Often cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was pu...

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'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York Times 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-...

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'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, whi...

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton - unhappily married to the un...

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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 Weddin...

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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...

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Ett av de stora moderna amerikanska författarskapen i ny utgåva ¿ »Carson McCullers har på ett oöverträffat sätt utforskat människans hjärta.« Tennessee Williams De båda döva männen John Singer och Spiros Antonopoulos bor tillsammans i ett litet b...

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'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 Ameri...

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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. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Class...

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'A Wunderkind - a Wunderkind a Wunderkind. The syllables would come out rolling in the deep German way, roar against her ears and then fall to a murmur...'Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaim...

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Ett av de stora moderna amerikanska författarskapen i ny utgåva »Carson McCullers har på ett oöverträffat sätt utforskat människans hjärta.« Tennessee Williams De båda döva männen John Singer och Spiros Antonopoulos bor tillsammans i ett litet bru...

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'McCullers shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds' New York Herald-Tribune Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bi...

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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 Franki...

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'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York TimesFew writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the Americ...

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Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who ...

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This collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," several early stories, and other important works.

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An imaginative twelve-year-old Georgia tomboy is jealous of her brother's upcoming wedding in this classic Southern novel. Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding charmed generations of readers and became an award-winning play and a m...

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The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.A remarkable bookFrom the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and ...

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'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee WilliamsOften cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was pub...

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'McCullers shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds' New York Herald-Tribune Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bi...

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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 volati...

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The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers"e;s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into he...

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