The Mortgaged Heart
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Mortgaged Heart
By (Author) Carson McCullers
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
31st July 2008
27th June 1985
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
818.5209
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
237g
Description
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 the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Author Bio
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.
