'The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear'
Making its twenty-three-year-old author an overnight literary sensation, this story of isolated, lost lives intersecting in a small town in the American South is a masterpiece of humane sensitivity.
Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241259740
Number of pages: 384
Dimensions: 181 x 111 x 22 mm
Weight: 221 g
Giovanni's Room
East of Eden
Frankenstein
Pride and Prejudice
The Master and Margarita
The Outsider
Madonna in a Fur Coat
And Then There Were None
Animal Farm
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Month in the Country
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
As a young person, I have full access to vast amounts of literature every day. After 17 years of reading, I can firmly say that this was one of the most beautiful and moving books I have ever read. The sudden ending... More
Carson McCullers' exquisite first novel is a remarkable study of intersecting lives in a Deep South mill town, staged just before the Second World War. With its distinctive. hypnotic (and yet sharply realist)... More
Carson McCullers was only twenty-three when her first novel was published in 1940. “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” is a quite remarkable story of loneliness in an unnamed Southern town in the late 1930s. A small... More
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