# Reflections in a Golden Eye

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- Book: [Reflections in a Golden Eye](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers/reflections-in-a-golden-eye) ([Reflections in a Golden Eye.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers/reflections-in-a-golden-eye.md))
- Authors: [Carson McCullers](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4175-202-9
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton – unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonora – in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers’ novella is a timeless work about the alienation of forbidden desire.