When she was only twenty-three, CarsonMcCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. Shewas very special, one of America's superlativewriters who conjures up a vision of existence asterrible as it is real, who takes us on shatteringvoyages into the depths of the spiritual isolationthat underlies the human condition. This novel isthe work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers'senduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strangeyoung girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a smallSouthern town, the cosmos universal and eternal.The characters are the damned, the voiceless, therejected. Some fight their loneliness withviolence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some-- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personalsearch for beauty. From the Paperback edition.

在线阅读本书 With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.

在线阅读本书 A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Café." A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers's first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers's first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South's finest writers.

在线阅读本书 With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for all various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attune to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated -- and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the NEW YORK TIMES. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best. When she was only twenty-three, CarsonMcCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. Shewas very special, one of America's superlativewriters who conjures up a vision of existence asterrible as it is real, who takes us on shatteringvoyages into the depths of the spiritual isolationthat underlies the human condition. This novel isthe work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers'senduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strangeyoung girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a smallSouthern town, the cosmos universal and eternal.The characters are the damned, the voiceless, therejected. Some fight their loneliness withviolence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some-- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personalsearch for beauty.

在线阅读本书 Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who appear to have little in common except they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives. 点击链接进入中文版： 心是孤独的猎手

本书写了老中青三个年龄段的人：八十多岁的前众议院的议员福克斯· 克莱恩法官，得了白血病的药房老板马龙先生，法官的孙子即十七岁的高中生杰斯特和同年的黑人舍曼。 小说有两条主线贯穿始终，串起了这些生动的人物。从第一页药房老板马龙先生查出得了白血病，从此他的人生成了没有指针的钟开始，到最后一页他平平静静永远合上眼睛为止，中间经历了十四个月的日子。这是小说的第一条明显的主线。第二条主线是蓝眼睛的黑人孤儿舍曼·普友一心要寻找自己的亲生母亲，而法官的孙子则有意查明他父亲的死因，于是小说就有了一条很粗的“种族歧视”的主线。凡是著名的黑人妇女，舍曼都觉得有可能是他的生母。然而他失望了，他在法官福克斯·克莱恩办公室里发现了有关他身世的诉讼卷宗。于是，他要跟白人“对着干”。最后，他因搬进了白人居住区而被炸死在家中，被种族主义所害，尽管他是一个很有才能的人。

麦卡勒斯继《心是孤独的猎手》之后推出另一部长篇力作。曾被改编成电影，由伊丽莎白·泰勒、马龙·白兰度、约翰·赫斯顿等巨星主演。 小说以1930年代驻扎在美国南方的一支军队为背景，讲述了双性恋者潘德腾上尉，因好色而有魅力的兰顿上校的到来且与其妻骚动而轻佻的利奥诺拉有染，生活被搅扰得翻天覆地的故事。1941年小说发表时，评论界并未真正明白如何解读其相对丑闻性的主题。但《时代》杂志的一位编辑却写道：“几乎在所有方面，这类素材所造就的不过是一类有关男同性恋者的附庸风雅的情节剧。而麦卡勒斯则以罕见的散文体天赋，简洁而富洞察力地讲述她的故事。”在创作这部小说之时，麦卡勒斯与利夫斯的婚姻正处于崩溃的边缘，而她的这第二部长篇小说展示的正是其关于人类情感疏离和不可行之爱的标志性主题。