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Carson McCullers
Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who appear to have little in common except they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl…
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A collection of Carson McCullers’ stories, including her novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Wunderkind .
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A collection of Carson McCullers’ work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and…
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Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a…
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Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
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Mary V. Dearborn
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America's greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals
V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore…
From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers’s coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl’s fascination with her brother’s wedding.
Virginia Spencer Carr
Carson McCullers was deemed the find of the decade when she appeared on the literary scene at the age of twenty-three and is best remembered for her celebrated novels The…
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…
Jenn Shapland
A genre-defying examination of identity, queerness and love in the vein of Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the boundaries between criticism, biography, and autobiography in search of two identities.
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A collection of essays celebrating the centenary of Carson McCullers by an international collaboration of scholars and writers. The essays bring to light multiple themes across McCullers’s works and seek…
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters…
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 injustice…
A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence ( Detroit Free Press ), The Member of the Wedding –which became an award-winning play and a major motion picture–showcases McCullers at…
Four men, young and old, have distinct feelings about death, love and justice, yet their past histories are inextricably bound together. Carson McCullers explores the roots of racial prejudice, so…
A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
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Twelve-year-old Frankie, a bored but sensitive young girl entering adolescence, has a difficult time dealing with the fuss over her older brother’s wedding. Reprint.
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
A collection of novellas and short stories. The author’s Georgia landscapes are peopled by mutes, tomboys, hunchbacks and misfits with whom, in her paralysing illness, she clearly identified. The author…
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers s best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Carson McCullers’s Wunderkind, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Uses diverse critical techniques to identify how McCullers’s short fiction engages with the modern world and contemporary audiences. This collection adds to analyses of McCullers’s better-known stories and considers those…
From McCullers’ birth in Columbus, Georgia in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, this book covers every significant event in and aspect of, the writer’s life…
The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers’ writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first…
Winner of the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for…
Presents important and scholarly criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains notes on the…
Judith James (Royalty Account)
A critical history of McCullers’s reputation and the social crosscurrents that shaped it.
Reflections in a Critical Eye is intended to appeal both to scholars of Carson McCullers and to those unaffiliated with colleges and universities who read and celebrate her life and…
A Study Guide for Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Carson McCullers’s The Haunted Boy, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Sarah Gleeson-White
This study adapts Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque, as well as gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of the southern writer Carson McCullers. The author argues that…
A Study Guide for Carson McCullers’s A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
A Study Guide for Carson McCullers’s The Square Root of Wonderful, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Sandra Sue Grubb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Lawrence Graver
Carson McCullers was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota…
