Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas
and essays from the world's greatest writers designed by the award-winning Coralie
Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from
snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean
island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed
and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with
foil. Few writers have expressed loneliness the need for human understanding and the search
for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. The
Ballad of the Sad Café is her masterpiece: an unruly bittersweet novella concerning the most
unlikely of love triangles. 'The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has
examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass' -
Tennessee Williams
