An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again. The generál plan of a fort in itself adds to the monotony - the huge concrete barracks, the neat rows of officers' homes built one precisely like the other, the gym, the chapel, the golf course and...
% PENGUIN BOOKS 1782 THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917. She was a Guggenheim Fellow from 1942 to 1943 and in 1946, and alsó received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1945. She has written The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940),...
EDITÖRS' PREFACE Carson McCullers once called The Member of the Wedding a fugue. The musical term comes to her naturally; she studied for years to be a concert pianist before becoming one of America's leading Southern novelists. But the term is more than a catchwörd drawn casually from her...
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
t he town itself is dreary; not much is there except the cotton mill, the two-room houses where the workers live, a few peach trees, a church with two colored windows, and a miserable main street only a hundred yards long. On Saturdays the tenants from the near-by...
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"A városban két süketnéma élt. Mindig együtt voltak. Kora reggel együtt jöttek ki a házból, amelyben laktak, s egymásba karolva indultak munkahelyükre.
Szemre jócskán különböztek egymástól. Egyikük az, aki a kettősfogatot irányította, görög volt,...