Published in 2025
1,732 pages
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
McCullers’s work is often described as Southern Gothic and indicative of her Southern roots. Critics also describe her writing and eccentric characters as universal in scope. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stage adaptation of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), which captures a young girl’s feelings at her brother’s wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51.
What is this book about?
Carson McCullers was an American realist author, whose stories depict the inner lives of misfits, outcasts and other lonely people. Her characters often endure physical and psychological difficulties that complicate their natural but bizarre searches for compassion. Her masterpiece The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is now ranked by the Modern Library as 17th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. McCullers’ work has often been described as Southern Gothic and is indicative of her Deep South roots. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents McCullers’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.
- Beautifully illustrated with images relating to McCullers’ life and works
- Concise introductions to the texts
- All the novels and short stories, with individual contents tables
- The complete poetry and plays
- Features rare poems appearing for the first time in digital publishing
- Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
- Rare uncollected essays and articles
- Excellent formatting of the texts
- Includes McCullers’ autobiography
- Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Novels
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941)
The Member of the Wedding (1946)
Clock without Hands (1961)
The Shorter Fiction
The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
Uncollected Short Stories
The Plays
The Member of the Wedding: A Play (1951)
The Sojourner (1953)
The Square Root of Wonderful (1958)
The Poetry
Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig (1964)
Uncollected Poems
The Non-Fiction
The Mortgaged Heart (1971)
Uncollected Essays
The Autobiography
Illumination and Night Glare (1967)
