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Truman Capote
A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
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P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way…
Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author’s study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances…
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Contains twelve of author’s celebrated short stories, together with The Grass Harp and Breakfast at Tiffany’s . This title also includes various sketches of places from Tangiers to Brooklyn, and…
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Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town.
In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover’s eyes…
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Truman Capote’s recently discovered debut novel is a captivating portrayal of first love.
Truman Capote's unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent a seismic shock through the public and Capote's own social circle.
"Prose that makes…
It’s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany’s. And nice girls don’t, except, of course, for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller…
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Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller.
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
Now Brando looked at people with…
Grady beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more…
Adrian Aguilar
The extended biography of Truman Capote, written by Adrian Aguilar, explores the complex life and work of this influential American author, best known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold…
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and…
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The protagonists of these nine short stories learn to accept the harsh loneliness of life.
When Joel Knox’s mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there…
George Plimpton
In the tradition of his smash bestseller Edie , Plimpton brings the endlessly intriguing Truman Capote to life via a dizzying cast of oral biographers, including Lauren Bacall, Katherine Graham…
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Robert L. Gale
An encyclopedia which includes every item in Capote’s oeuvre, including novels, short stories, and non-fictional prose pieces. All of his fictional characters are identified, as well as family members and…
Thomas Fahy
Truman Capote - along with his most famous works In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s - continues to have a powerful hold over the popular imagination. Thomas Fahy provides…
Provides a new direction for Capote studies that offers a way to reconsider the author’s work. By reading Capote’s work in its historical context, Fahy reveals the politics shaping his…
Truman Capote once said, The thing I like to do most in the whole world is talk… , and talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected…
Perhaps no 20th-century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever…
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In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American consciousness and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows…
El protagonista de la novela ingenioso, encantador, bisexual, absolutamente amoral logro escaparse de un orfanato a los trece anos, aprendio el oficio de masajista y se las ingenio para convertirse…
An upper-class young woman is on her own in her family’s Fifth Avenue penthouse while her parents and sister summer abroad. Bored and lonely, she develops a turbulent relationship with…
The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany’s shares not only the author’s philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old…
A boy matures amidst the odd characters who live in Skully’s Landing.
The selections in this book have previously appeared in the following publications: Esquire, Interview magazine, McCall’s magazine and The New Yorker –Copyright page.
The first book to collect all of Truman Capotes essays into one volume, including the recently discovered Remembering Willa Cather, this collection chronicles the short nonfiction of one of Americas…
Originally published: New York: Random House, c1965.
This volume includes three of Capote’s best-known stories, House of Flowers , A Diamond Guitar , and A Christmas Memory , in addition to his bestselling novel, Breakfast at Tiffany…
Perhaps already the most famous unpublished novel in contemporary American fiction, Answered Prayers is the work Capote was still completing at the time of his death and is joined here…
Intends to reconstruct the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. This title explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on…
Based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer, this work offers insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. It…
Three stories describe a boy’s relationship with his elderly cousin and alcoholic father and the indelible holiday memories they provided him.
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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and…
Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style…
On 15 November 1959, the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the…
An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers.
