- 2008
- year of publication
- 320
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4008-195-4
- EAN
- 9780140081954
- Publication date
- 2008-07-31
- Book
- The Mortgaged Heart · 2 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.

