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.
| ISBN: | 9780140081954 |
| Publication date: | 27th June 1985 |
| Author: | Carson McCullers |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Biographies & Autobiographies Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |