New PDF release: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings (The

By Carson McCullers,Carlos Dews

Celebrated all over the world for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was both entire, and both relocating, while writing in shorter kinds. This Library of the US quantity brings together for the 1st time her twenty awesome stories, along with performs, essays, memoirs, and poems. listed here are the indelible stories “Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland” and “A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.” in addition to her previously uncollected tale concerning the civil rights circulate, “The March”; her award- successful Broadway play The Member of the Wedding and the unpublished teleplay The Sojourner; twenty-two essays; and the disclosing unfinished memoir Illumination and evening Glare. This wide-ranging gathering of shorter works finds new depths and dimensions of the writer whom V. S. Pritchett praised for her “courageous imagination—one that's daring sufficient to think about the terrible in human nature with no lack of nerve, calm, dignity, or love.”

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