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The Mortgaged Heart
The Mortgaged Heart
Sep 9, 2025 6:25 PM

Author:Carson McCullers

The Mortgaged Heart

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.

Reviews

The greatest prose writer that the South produced

—— Tennessee Williams

Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds

—— New York Herald-Tribune

A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw

—— Time

A tale of frustrated dreams and dreams come true, embodying all the perverse charm of what time, implacably, has swept away ... Don't pass it by

—— El Mundo

A literary cocktail that mixes adventure, espionage, glamour, aristocracy and passion

—— La Vanguardia

A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue. Sira Quiroga - the seamstress - won't be easily forgotten

—— Juan Gómez-Jurado, author of , The Moses Expedition

A fun romp

—— Good Housekeeping

Devour it

—— Marie Claire

First-rate fiction . . . sharp, with great empathy

—— San Francisco Weekly
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