The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers""s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the the working outline of ""The Mute,"" which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
By:
Carson McCullers Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 237g ISBN:9780140081954 ISBN 10: 014008195X Series:Penguin Modern Classics Pages: 304 Publication Date:31 July 2008 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia. She published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, at the age of twenty-three. She died in 1967 at the age of fifty.