num_pages: 117
description: A collection of McCullers best short stories about grotesque people and situations in the southern United States.Contents: 	The ballad of the sad café. - Wunderkind. - The Jockey. - Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland. - The sojourner. - A domestic dilemma. - A tree, a rock, a cloud. - The haunted boy.
language: English
title: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Collected Short Stories
titlecomplete: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Collected Short Stories
genres: Classics, Southern, Gothic, Fiction, Short Stories, Southern Gothic, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 22113
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt