This is a collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems and her writing on writing. The text contains the working outline of 'The Mute' which became her best-selling novel 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'.

The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice. Through the eyes of these individuals, the author explores the roots of racial prejudice, and the dual moralities of the town's leading whites.

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 12 year-old girl.

Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as Carson McCullers. This volume contains seven stories, beginning with 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'."

The Major and his fragile wife dine and play cards with Captain Penderton and his flamboyant wife, watched at a distance by Private Williams. Quiet and unfathomable, he is fascinated by the captain's wife.

Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who have little in common. A young girl, a drunk and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.