Carson McCullers: Stories Plays & Other Writings (LOA #287): Complete stories / The Member of the Wedding: A Play / The Sojourner / The Square Root ... (Library of America Carson McCullers Edition)

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A landmark gathering of McCullers shorter works including all her published stories plays essays poems and an unfinished autobiography Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels Carson McCullers was equally accomplished and equally moving when writing in shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories along with plays essays memoirs and poems. Here are the indelible tales Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland and A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as well as her previously uncollected story about the civil rights movement The March; her award- winning Broadway play The Member of the Wedding and the unpublished teleplay The Sojourner; twenty-two essays; and the revealing unfinished memoir Illumination and Night Glare. This wide-ranging gathering of shorter works reveals new depths and dimensions of the writer whom V. S. Pritchett praised for her courageous imaginationone that is bold enough to consider the terrible in human nature without loss of nerve calm dignity or love. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing and keeping permanently in print Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date authoritative editions that average 1 000 pages in length feature cloth covers sewn bindings and ribbon markers and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.