Collected Stories: Including The Members of The Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

McCullers, Carson

ISBN 10: 039544179X / ISBN 13: 9780395441794

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1987

About this Item

392pp. Black cloth, gray paper hard cover with silver title, mild sunning to head and foot. Dust jacket price clipped, some what soiled and bumped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall S3.

Seller Inventory # 000243

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Stories: Including The Members of The Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039544179X
• ISBN 13: 9780395441794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

First edition, first printing. NOT ex-library. The book was gently read and is very sharp. The jacket generally is sharp. It has moderate signs of handling and a few tiny stains, including one on the lower end of the spine.

Reviews

This work collects for the first time all 19 of McCullers's stories from a 1951 edition and from The Mortgaged Heart (1971). Her most critically acclaimed novels round out the reader, while the author's biographer Virginia Carr provides a lucid, thoughtful introduction. McCullers patented the Southern gothic genre that embraces grotesque, morbid characters with such pervading themes as unrequited love and wounded adolescence. Largely set in the South and richly autobiographical, her writings have endured because of their great power and originality. Sure to appeal to the general reader, the volume will also satisfy scholars with its broad look at McCullers's oeuvre. Edward C. Lynskey, Documentation, Atlantic Research Corp., Alexandria, Va.
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