The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe Av Carson Mccullers

<p><b>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.</b><br><br>Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.<br><br>Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. <i>The Ballad of the Sad Caf¿/i>is her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.<br><br>''The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an under