# The Mortgaged Heart

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- Book: [The Mortgaged Heart](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers/the-mortgaged-heart) ([The Mortgaged Heart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers/the-mortgaged-heart.md))
- Authors: [Carson McCullers](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4008-195-4
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2008-07-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.