Mortgaged Heart

The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers&quote;s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the the working outline of &quote;The Mute,&quote; which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.