num_pages: 392
description: Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café, novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredly among the masterpieces of our language."
language: English
title: Collected Stories: Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café
titlecomplete: Collected Stories: Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café
genres: Fiction, Southern Gothic, 20th Century, Classics, Southern, The United States Of America, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 2425
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company