About the book
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton – unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonora – in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers’ novella is a timeless work about the alienation of forbidden desire.
Editions of Reflections in a Golden Eye
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780241752029
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780141184456
- EBook
- ISBN 9780718196097
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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton – unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonora – in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers’ novella is a timeless work about the alienation of forbidden desire.
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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton – unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonora – in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers’ novella is a timeless work about the alienation of forbidden desire.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Reflections in a Golden Eye?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Classic fiction: literary and general
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Reflections in a Golden Eye?
Carson McCullers
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Reflections in a Golden Eye is available as paperback(ISBN 9780241752029) and paperback(ISBN 9780141184456) and ebook(ISBN 9780718196097)
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