The Mortgaged Heart

Author: MCCULLERS CARSON

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  • : 9780140081954
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : 01 May 1985
  • : 199mm X 129mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

"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. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".

Author description

Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia. She published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, at the age of twenty-three. She died in 1967 at the age of fifty.