Book Description
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.
"McCullers' gift," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "was to evoke, through an accumulation of images and musically repeated phrases, the singularity of experience, not to pass judgment on it." McCullers effortlessly conveyed the raw anguish of her characters and the weird beauty of their perceptions. Set in small Georgia towns that are at once precisely observed and mythically resonant, McCullers' novels explore the strange, sometimes grotesque inner lives of characters who are often marginal and misunderstood. Above all, McCullers possessed an unmatched ability to capture the bewilderment and fragile wonder of adolescence.
In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, an enigmatic deaf-mute draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a young girl, a black doctor, and the widowed owner of a small-town café. Two shorter works, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1943), use melodramatic scenarios and freakish characters to explore the disfiguring violence of desire. The Member of the Wedding (1946), on which the play and film were based, tells of a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding and is perhaps McCullers' most moving and accomplished novel. In Clock Without Hands (1960), the story of a terminally ill druggist, McCullers produces some of her most forceful and indignant social criticism.
Edited by Carlos Dews.
Customer Reviews:
The American Jane Austen?.......2003-12-24
I have read many novels by many writers, both American and foreign, but it's been a good long while since I've read something so penetrating and perceptive as Carson McCuller's first and last novels. The characters in the books, their lives and personalities, are so well thought-out and delineated that you have to wonder how a woman of 23 could put something like this together. Anyway, below is a synopsis of each story in this volume.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is the longest of Carson McCullers' novels, and the first. She wrote it in the late `30s, and published it in 1940, when she was 23. It's an incredible first novel, and amazingly prescient and wise for someone of her age, era, and upbringing. The story revolves around a deaf mute, John Singer, who works engraving silverware in a small city in the South somewhere. He has only one friend in the world, another deaf mute who works for his cousin, making candy. As the story begins the candymaker (named Antanopolous) is committed to an asylum, and Singer moves from the home they shared, and slowly begins to acquire a circle of other friends. Principle in this circle are four people: Mick, the daughter of his landlords at the rooming house he lives in; Biff, who runs the diner where he takes his meals; Blount, another denizen of the diner, who wishes to unionize the local mill-workers; and Dr.Copeland, a black man who rages against the injustice of white society towards him and his race. The heart of the story is a character study of these five people, with alternating chapters following the one and then the other. Each is intelligent, in his or her own way, and each has special insights into the world around them. How these characters interact, and the relationships between them and the rest of the world, make the heart of the story and most of the book.
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a shorter story, one of McCullers' novels that is really more of a novella. The plot revolves around a love triangle that develops between two officers on an Army base, and the wife of one of them. There's also a strange, solitary, enigmatic private who tends the horses on the base, and he interacts with the other characters. Frankly, I didn't enjoy this story as much as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. The characters weren't anywhere near as believable, and their motivations weren't as transparent or understandable. The ending was also somewhat predictable.
The Ballad of the Sad Café is the shortest of McCullers' novels or novellas, weighing in at 60 pages. It's the story of a strange, unpredictable relationship between the standoffish businesswoman who dominates the culture of a small town, and a dwarf hunchback who shows up one day claiming to be her long-lost nephew. How the two of them interact in the story is strange, to say the least, and not wholly explained in the story. This creates an enigmatic atmosphere, and as the story progresses and it becomes obvious we're not going to receive an explanation of things, you find yourself re-reading passages looking for clues as to motivations. I enjoyed this story much more than Reflections in a Golden Eye, perhaps almost as much as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
The Member of the Wedding is perhaps McCullers' most strange work. The heart of the book is built around the fantastic intentions and beliefs of a twelve-year-old girl. In the first portion of the book, she's known as Frankie. Later, when she gets the idea she's going to leave with her older brother on his honeymoon, she changes her name to F. Jasmine, and the book follows that convention. Once it develops that she can't go with the brother and his new bride (you knew this was going to happen) she becomes Frances. There isn't much of a plot other than this girl fantasizing about all of the things she's going to be or do, and looking down her nose at all the common people who surround her, who she thinks are beneath her.
Clock Without Hands is the best of McCullers' books other than The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I now wonder if the length of the books had something to do with whether I liked them or not. She seems to have been able, in the longer books, to build her characters more, and have more plot twists. Clock Without Hands is about a dying pharmacist in a small Georgia town, and the events surrounding his death, but it really turns out to be more about one of his acquaintances, a senile old judge who imagines himself a great leader of the opposition to the desegregation movement. The episodes of the Civil Rights movement, as McCullers recreates them, become at times farcical and silly, and the resistance to the movement altogether silly and irrational.
Library of America volumes are wonderful to hold and read, and this is no exception. The type is clear, the book handy to hold or slip into a pocket. Given McCullers' stature as a writer, I think I'm going to value this book for a good long while.
Magnificent McCullers.......2002-03-11
Carson McCullers, one of America's greatest Southern writers, was often misunderstood, as many people were put off by or unwilling to deal with her (at the time) controversial subject matter. MCCullers used the grotesque as exaggerated symbols of everyday experience. The loneliness and isolation of her gothic-like characters were merely extreme examples of feelings we all have, though magnified and intensified to the nth degree.
Tennessee Williams, in his introduction to MCCullers' "Reflections in a Golden Eye", posed the question (in a mock dialogue) most people asked about writers of the 'gothic' school such as Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty: "Why do they write about such dreadful things?" Williams replies, " In my opinion it is most simply definable as a sense, an intuition of an underlying dreadfulness in modern society.. Why have they got to use..symbols of the grotesque and the violent? Because a book is short and a man's life is long... The awfulness has to be compressed."
McCullers, unlike any writer I have ever read, pierces the heart of themes such as love, isolation, and loneliness with her lucid, poetic prose. Tennessee Williams, in Virginia Spencer Carr's biography of McCullers summed up McCullers' writing as follows: "I have used the word 'heart', but it is not an adequate word to describe the core of Carson McCullers' genius....I believe, in fact I know, that there are many, many with heart who lack the need or gift to express it. And therefore Carson McCullers is what I would call a necessary writer: She owned the heart and the deep understanding of it, but in addition she had that 'tongue of angels' that gave her power to sing of it, to make of it an anthem."
The unique lady of the "South".......2001-10-20
Until very recently, it was quite difficult to find a nice hardback copy of Mc Culler's novels. Each one of them is absolutely priceless and unforgettable; believe me when I tell you that "The Ballad of the Sad Café" is one of those stories that long remain on your mind. Mc Culler's novels, clearly influenced by Faulkner, surpass the master himself in magnetism, , power of storytelling and above all, characterization. If you add to all this a dose of gothic dark strangely ambivalent sense of humour, the result is certainly a writer utterly impossible to classify, novels that you really enjoy reading and characters that you are very unlikely to forget. Besides I am fully in love with the Library of America hardback editions and Mc Cullers certainly deserves to be included in this collection.
Later, if you want to give yourself a treat, go and buy her autobiography, although unfinished, a memorable book.
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Twelve-year-old Frankie Adams, longing at once for escape and belonging, takes her role as "member of the wedding" to mean that when her older brother marries she will join the happy couple in their new life together. But Frankie is unlucky in love; her mother is dead, and Frankie narrowly escapes being raped by a drunken soldier during a farewell tour of the town. Worst of all, "member of the wedding" doesn't mean what she thinks. A gorgeous, brief coming-of-age novel.
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The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the rst time. Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old male cousin not to mention her own unbridled imagination Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be the member of something larger, more accepting than herself. "A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence" (Detroit Free Press), The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best.
Customer Reviews:
DARK AND MELANCHOLIC COMING OF AGE STORY..........2007-08-26
This is a book about Frankie Adams, a twelve year old girl coming of age in the South during World War II. We see her world through her eyes, so that the reader gets a skewed version of the world around Frankie. Clearly all is not right with her, as her brother is getting married and Frankie thinks that she will be going off with her brother and his bride. Frankie spins a total fantasy around this concept. She does not think that two is company and three is a crowd.
Why does she do this? There are many reasons. Some of them are rather dark. Frankie's mother died giving birth to her. Her father has remained a widower, letting Frankie sleep in the same bed with him until she was about twelve, when he finally gave her the boot. Her best friend is her six year old first cousin, John Henry. He likes to sleep over, and when he does, he sleeps in the bed with Frankie. She caresses him when he sleeps, and even takes to licking him behind his ear while he slumbers. She also has apparently had a sexual encounter of some kind with a neighborhood boy, an incident about which she will not speak. The author weaves these details into the story, glossing over them, leaving the reader feeling shocked. This feeling is exacerbated by the almost casual interjection of these details.
There is so much emotional trauma in Frankie's life that it is amazing she can function at all. Also distressing to Frankie is the fact that she is isolated from children her own age. The neighborhood girls, who are just a little older than her and whom Frankie envies, shun her. Her father pretty much ignores her, leaving her upbringing to the housekeeper, Bernice. When it comes time to buy her a dress for her brother's wedding, she is sent off to buy the dress by herself. It is little wonder that the dress she ends up purchasing is totally unsuitable. Her feeling of isolation is palpable to the reader.
Although Frankie is somewhat of a tomboy, she likes getting dressed up, slathering on lipstick, and taking a walk through the town, calling herself F. Jasmine, looking older than her years. In this guise, she meets a soldier, who takes her for being much older. It comes as no surprise when it all goes horribly wrong. Yet, Frankie is evidently a survivor and manages to fend for herself.
The moment of truth for Frankie arrives when her brother's wedding finally takes place, but by then that event is almost anti-climactic, as events continue to buffet Frankie, leaving her more isolated that ever before. Still, she continues on, not seeming to have learned anything all from her experiences, an emotionally troubled child suffering a severe disconnection from the world.
This is a thematically complex story told through the jagged fragments of the life of a young girl, one who views the world in a disjointed, unrealistic way, her world view clouded by inner demons that are never given a voice. It is a story that is dark and melancholic, leaving the reader to ponder upon a life so young, yet so despairing.
Perverse Sexuality Meets Beautiful Literary Writing.......2006-11-05
It's not easy to criticize this book, because it is beautifully written and captures something tragic and poignant and important: the emotional trials and conflicts of a spunky twelve year old girl who is coming of age in a world that doesn't understand her. But McCullers' darker undercurrents taint the book.
Threaded throughout are elements of sexual perversity, terrible sexual boundaries with children, and hints at pedophilia, leading me to question strongly what in the world happened to Carson McCullers when she was a little girl. Furthermore, the perversity often pops up in a disjointed way that adds nothing to the book's power, and thus reads largely as gratuitous.
A few examples from the book - a book which I did not finish because I didn't trust where its author was taking me:
1) The main character, a pubescent twelve year old girl who is nearly five-foot six, has spent her whole life up till now sleeping in the bed with her widowed and single father, until he looks at her one day and realizes she's "a great big long-legged twelve year old" - McCullers leaves exactly what he means to our imagination - and kicks her out of bed.
2) The girl's best friend is a six year old boy, whom she bullies and torments, and then basically forces to spend the night with her in her bed. McCullers makes a point of showing how they change their clothes for bed in the same room - "with their backs turned to each other" - and then get in bed together. Once the little boy is asleep the girl, who is two months away from turning thirteen, rubs his bare stomach with her hand, licks him behind his ear, and then nuzzles up to him. (Also, imagine if their genders were reversed!)
3) The father takes a married couple as boarders in the house, but the girl - then age nine - walks in on them doing something overtly sexual with the door left purposefully open. McCullers leaves it to the readers' imagination what her little protagonist viewed.
4) McCullers talks about the girl character, age twelve, having had sex with a neighborhood boy. Again, she gets vague on details, but why is she sharing even this much? If you were to remove the literary style and add a scant few more details, you would have child pornography.
5) Eventually the girl changes her name, wears an adult dress that makes her look much older - and goes out on the town and meets a visiting adult soldier. He comes onto her sexually - though stops only because others come into the bar where he is giving her alcohol. One is only left to wonder where the book will go from here.
Because this book was written in the 1940s the author can get away with it - and perhaps also because she's a female author - but really, it's disturbing and perverse.
An interesting (and slightly weird) book.......2006-08-28
Frankie Adams is a 12-year-old girl growing up in the American south in the 1940s. She feels entirely out of place in her surroundings and longs for the day when she can escape to a new world. Frankie's mother died during childbirth, leaving Frankie to live alone her father, a reclusive jeweler. The only two people Frankie generally interacts with are her African American housekeeper, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry. Frankie's older brother is getting married on Sunday, and Frankie develops an unhealthy fixation on the wedding. All she can do is fascinate about how perfect the wedding will be and how she, as a member of the wedding, will be invited to live with her brother and his new bride and embark on an exciting new life with them.
In the days and hours leading up to the wedding, Frankie reveals herself to the reader as being stubborn, overly emotional, and incredibly naive. Frankie desperately wants to create an exciting new life for herself and even goes so far as to change her name to "F. Jasmine" in an effort to sound more grown-up. However, Frankie is not at all as mature as she seems to think she is. In addition to having several violent outbursts, Frankie is so frightened and lonely that she can only sleep if her father or her cousin share the bed with her. Frankie also finds herself in a very dangerous situation when she "befriends" a traveling soldier who attempts to rape Frankie in a dark hotel room.
Eventually Frankie makes it to her brother's wedding, which does not go the way she'd planned. Frankie is forced to realize that a marriage is a union between only two people, and she wasn't really a "member of the wedding" at all. When she is brought back home against her will, Frankie makes one final attempt to flee, and unsurprisingly, things don't exactly go her way.
The conclusion of this novel was a bit disappointing to me, as I thought the ending was very rushed and kind of glossed over. It's obvious that Frankie finally starts to mature, but I think the author could have provided a stronger foundation for the transition of "the old Frankie" to "the new Frankie."
Overall, I liked this book, but I can't say that it was exactly pleasant to read. Although extremely well-written, "The Member of the Wedding" is incredibly dreary and sad. Still, the story is a very haunting one that accurately portrays how difficult it can be to find unity with other people.
Carson McCullers is brilliant.......2006-02-28
I think the book was very nice to read, even though some parts of it were a bit difficult. It had a good story and some good feelings which you can also see around you. Like people being selfish to hide their lack of self-confidence.
I liked the part when Frankie ran away from home. She finally realizes that she can't make it by herself and wants someone to go with her. This is the part where her loneliness is showed, anyway she doesn't want to be alone. So that's why she's doubting so much.
I learned about people's feelings who have such a complex like Frankie. They feel lonely and inferior to others but try too change their character into the opposite, so like they aren't alone and are very cool and all. But actually they're hiding their real "I".
Again, Unrequited Love!.......2005-08-16
There is in the works of Carson McCullers a melancholy tone, signifying the main theme that dominates her writing. That theme is love. But it is not just the martyred longing of a poetic balladeer or the simplistic infatuation with love itself symbolized by the giving of a thorny rose; it is unrequited love, the tragic flaw of all humans to love the most that which is most incapable of returning that love. This tone of unrequited love leaves a reader with a feeling of haunting dreariness, as one would have for something unresolved.
McCullers grew up training to become a concert pianist. Perhaps one of the best analogies she uses to describe this aforementioned main theme is undoubtedly drawn from the thousands of hours she spent in front of the keyboard. In The Member of the Wedding, McCullers' heroine Frankie comments on the torture of an unfinished piano scale:
"If you start with A and go on up to G, there is a curious thing that seems to make the difference between G and A all the difference in the world. Twice as much difference as between any other two notes in the scale. Yet they are side by side there on the piano just as close together as the other notes."
Replete with meaning, this quote sums up very well McCullers' feelings concerning the tragedy of human relationships. When listening to a music scale, there is something within everyone -something universal or instinctual, perhaps - that cringes when the scale is not completed, especially if it is just the last note that is left off. This human trait is perhaps best described by the German Bauhaus art movement, which attempts to explain, among other things, how humans have an inherent need to complete all aspects of existence, most notably in the visual arts. The human brain is wired to finish that which is just barely incomplete, such as a three-quarter circle (one naturally sees the semblance of a full circle) or how the use of negative space alone can define the subject (or positive space) of a work. In the aforementioned example of the piano scale, McCullers brilliantly links the longing for love with that unfinished scale. For some reason, true love is always just out of reach, like the ascension of a piano scale that never reaches the last note. And just like the auditory incompleteness of the piano scale jars the nerves, the emotional incompleteness of never attaining true love can "drive you wild!"
Book Description
Ask a bride for five words she hopes will describe her wedding day and you’re likely to hear words like beautiful, personal, romantic, unique, and elegant. Now famed knitwear designer Suss Cousins makes brides’ dreams come true with Wedding Knits, a gorgeous collection of thirty patterns for hand-knitted wedding essentials—like a dainty ring pillow, the must-have something-blue garter, and sexy lingerie for the wedding night—that are timeless and totally original, just like you.
From easy projects that knit up in no time to an inspiring design for a hand-knitted wedding gown, Wedding Knits offers patterns for every member of the wedding and every step of your walk down the aisle:
For the Bridal Party
Luxe Bridesmaid Purse, Belted Tunic Dress, Bridesmaid Wrap, Mother-of-the-Bride Handkerchief, Ring Cushion
For the Bride
Ultimate Wedding Dress, Two Veil Styles, Bride's Stole, Something-Blue Garter, Long Fingerless Gloves, Tasseled Silk Bridal Purse
For the Honeymoon
Wedding Night Robe, Sexy Nightie, Angora Camisole and Shorts Set
Suss uses rich and luxurious yarns to highlight each dreamy wedding creation. Perfect for a bride-to-be and a must-have for friends who want to create memorable gifts, Wedding Knits covers all of the essentials for items from engagement to honeymoon.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful, if simple.......2007-09-26
I was surprised that this book has gotten so many poor customer reviews. I am quite satisfied with it. The author and description did not promise complex pieces, so I don't understand why people were so disappointed that most of the items in the book are fairly simple to knit. Although most of the projects are easy, there are definitely some more difficult ones, such as the wedding dress (which is gorgeous, and I am considering making it in color to wear as a formal gown). The simpler projects are also charming-- I am planning on making the Belted Tunic Dress for myself, and I have already put the book to work in its true purpose by making the weekend bags for my cousin's wedding. The Sexy Nightie, Honeymoon Sweater, and Wedding Night Robe are also all projects I would consider making. This book is not for those looking for extremely complex knitting, but anyone who likes Suss Cousin's signature simple but stylish knits will enjoy this book.
Boring, Bland, Over-rated, Uninspiring.......2007-04-29
I was very disappointed with this book which I eagerly awaited, expecting beautiful, elegant designs like Sowerby's Victorian Lace or the designs from Fiddlesticks Knitting. Instead I found very plain, boring patterns of stocking stitch, with some ribbing and feather and fan- nothing above the level of beginner. These are the type of patterns that you can download for free from Lion Brand's website. Some of the ideas like the wedding veil would be beautiful in a vintage lace pattern- instead it is plain stocking stitch- boring and tacky. These designs are a waste of nice yarn and good photogrpahy.
Weddiing Knits.......2007-03-17
Has a variety of projects for the wedding party and bride. I found just what I needed and more.
Clean designs and luxurious yarns.......2007-02-15
I'm surprised at the other bad reviews too. I really like it. I'm not getting married, but this book is full of chic sweaters, shrugs, wraps & tiny purses that are very wearable and nicely fitted. I've leafed through her Hollywood Knits and Home Knits books and THEY seem pretty boring. I've been in her store several times and these knits are totally her style. It's mostly fine knits created from subtly colored, luxury blend yarns using alpaca, mohair, cotton and viscose. It's kind of lame that all the yarns used are from her personal SUSS line, but yardages and material contents are given so that you can make appropriate substitutions. I plan on using different high-end yarns with the patterns to give them a little more pizazz. The designs are unique and classic enough to wear for a long time without being too trendy, so they are worth investing time and money into. I knit up the Bridesmaid Wrap sweater in a variegated light mohair yarn (see pics). I think the styles are versatile enough to personalize in many ways.
Beautiful Knitting.......2007-01-12
I thought this book was beautiful. I was suprised to read the poor reviews.
Book Description
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)
Customer Reviews:
A master of characterization and setting.......2004-02-18
What strikes me most about McCullers is the simple yet rich complexity of her characters. While some of the earlier stories in this book felt too incomplete for me, as if they were more vignettes than stories, the tales grew stronger as I read on. The Haunted Boy is my favorite because it resonates with a sad truthfulness as a boy struggles to cope with a tragic event from the past which he's yet to deal with emotionally.
I think any true fan of literary storytelling will admit that, though perhaps not always perfect, Carson McCullers' writing as a whole is a sample of this genre at its best.
Interesting..........2001-11-15
I have always read stories in the past that gave me feelings right away. After reading these short stories, I was somewhat confused why McCullers didn't elaborate, or why she ended the story where she did. It was only after reading her biography, that I began to reread the stories and became obsessed with all of them. The meanings became clearer, the ideas behind them were revealed, and she has become my favorite author. I would recommend this to anyone, and I would also recommend her novels too. Enjoy.
Fine, neglected writer, on her way back!.......2001-06-28
I've loved Carson McCullers for years, and her complete works have only been sporadically available. Her miniatures are near perfectly realized works of literary art, and this collection is a fine introduction to a great writer from the south who seems to have dropped of the critical radar. Her output is quite small, finely honed, and the prose is like a clear blue sky. Her longer works are worth searching for, and I recently noted that The Library of America has been hard at work making sure that Carson will continue to be read....!
Depressing themes emerge.......2001-05-04
I'm not a fan of the open-ended short story, being a tale that is redolent with symbolism that I'm certain is there but just don't "get." Unfortunately McCullers' tales seem to fall into this category so I was not terribly thrilled with the stories. However, as a body of work they were interesting--the themes of lost childhood, changing sibling relationships, disgruntled musical prodigies, and general loneliness / rejection emerge and give a nice sense of continuity to the works. The inclusion of two of her novellas is nice; I appreciate the longer story format for the ability to get to know the characters and setting a little better.
Overall I'd recommend picking up McCullers' novellas and if you're thrilled with those, tackle her short stories.
A wonderful collection.......1999-09-29
This book contains a wealth of moving stories by a great writer, including a well-written introduction by her biographer. This would definitely be one of my desert island books.
Book Description
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater.
With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South. Julie Harris became a star playing the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who falls deeply in love with her older brother and his fiancé. Exhilarated by her naïve conviction that being a member of their wedding means she will become what she calls the "we of me," Frankie is devastated when she learns she is not invited on the honeymoon. Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie. Portrayed on stage and in the film versions by the great Ethel Waters, Bernice is an epic character, fiercely loyal, down-to-earth, and centered by deep faith.
Product Description
Grotesque and macabre compassionate and wise. The most celebrated novel of a great american writer. The characters are the damned the voiceless the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity some with sex or drink and some with a quiet intensely personal search for beauty.
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3 Novels etc. in one edition
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- The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
- The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)
- The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear)
- The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear)
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