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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 in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. The book begins with a focus on the relationship between two close friends, John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, deaf-mutes who have lived together for several years. Antonapoulos becomes mentally ill, misbehaves, and, despite attempts at...

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 in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. The book begins with a focus on the relationship between two close friends, John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, deaf-mutes who have lived together for several years. Antonapoulos becomes mentally ill, misbehaves, and, despite attempts at...

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The title story of this collection follows a simple triangle of unrequited love. Miss Amelia, gaunt and lonely owner of a small town store, squanders her love on cousin Lymon, the little strutting hunchback who turned the store into a cafe.

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Set in the 1930s in a small town in the middle of the deep South, this story conveys the power of silent empathy and kindness. John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, is approached by a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their sile...

Set in the 1930s in a small town in the middle of the deep South, this story conveys the power of silent empathy and kindness. John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, is approached by a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their sile...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully ...

Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, " novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredly among the masterpieces of our language." (A Mariner Reissue)

Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness.

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These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding.

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Het is 1953. In een stadje in Georgia, in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten, volgen we vier mannen. De negenendertigjarige J.T. Malone, drogist en apotheker, hoort dat hij ongeneeslijk ziek is en probeert in het reine te komen met zijn geweten vanwege zijn 'verspilde leven'. Fox Clane, een oude rechter, verzet zich tegen integratie van de zwarte bevolking en verlangt naar de oude waarden van het Zuiden. Zijn dwarse, idealistische kleinzoon Je...

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