The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers - ISBN: 9780140081954
Paperback
Early works reveal a literary heart on its captivating journey.

The Mortgaged Heart

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    31 July 2008

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Summary

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.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140081954
ISBN-10:014008195X
Author:Carson McCullers
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Edition:1st
Release Date:31 July 2008
Weight:250g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 21mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and ‘50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).

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