Truman Capote: 25 books

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This...

A holiday classic from "one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history" (Vanity Fair)! First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany's) about his rural Alabama...

La correspondencia privada de uno de los grandes escritores del siglo XX. Incisivo, mordaz, seductor, impertinente, cínico y romántico, Truman Capote, el enfant terrible de las letras norteamericanas, no es solo uno de los grandes narradores del siglo XX, sino también un icono cultural,...

Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the...

**National Bestseller ** On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.  As...

This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s...

Una selección de cuentos que Julio Cortázar calificó como «inolvidables» en diversas épocas de su vida. Una lista de cuentos que se abre pero no se cierra e involucra al propio Cortázar como lector junto con grandes autores de la Literatura contemporánea. Los cuentos son "El...

Holly Golightly, la protagonista de Desayuno en Tiffany's, es quizá el más seductor personaje creado por este maestro de seducción que fue Truman Capote. Atractiva sin ser guapa, tras rechazar una carrera de actriz en Hollywood, Holly se convierte en una estrella del Nueva York más sofisticado;...

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the...

Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously...

The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the masters of the stage like Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams...