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 volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the Saturday Review called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.

Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote’s short fiction–a volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form. Among the selections are “A Tree of Night,” in which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back the deepest fears of childhood . . . “House of Flowers,” the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else can ever understand . . . the holiday perennial “A Christmas Memory,” famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and “The Bargain,” Capote’s melancholy, never-before-published 1950 story about a suburban housewife’s shifting fortunes. From the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are captured in this first-ever compendium. The Collected Stories of Truman Capote should restore its author to a place above mere celebrity, to the highest levels of American letters.

在线阅读本书 When Joel Knoxs mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his father. Truman Capotes first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a brilliant, searching study of homosexuality set in a shimmering landscape of heat, mystery and decadence.

在线阅读本书 Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not to Salvatore 'Sally' Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing. Not to a starving writer. Not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Until then she's travelling.

什麼原因讓兩名凶手犯下滅門血案？當作家試圖剖析凶手的心靈時，他的目光、他的筆，比凶刀更加冰冷…… 這是文學史上最富傳奇也最冷血的書寫。1959年11月15日，美國南方小鎮發生滅門血案，吸引了作家卡波提的注意，他立即趕到當地，開始一連串訪談，包括對死者親友、鄰居、當地警局，以及最重要的──兩名殺人嫌犯。 往後五年半之間，卡波提全心投入於調查被害者一家、兩名凶手（狄克與貝利）的身世，並重建慘案發生經過，與近身採訪兩名嫌犯接受審判的過程。為了深入了解凶手的心靈，卡波提與嫌犯成為好朋友。有人說卡波提在兩人身上看見自己悲慘的童年，也有人說，卡波提最後愛上了凶手。 嫌犯自力救濟，四處發函抗議判決不公。但上訴官司最後沒打成，凶手仍然伏法，而描繪他們心靈狀態的《冷血》於1966年出版，成為美國最暢銷的文學經典，卡波提也藉此登上文學殿堂的巔峰，但他從此再沒能完成新的作品。