Introducing Little Clothbound Classics irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas and essays from the worlds greatest writers designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sundrenched 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 Caf is her masterpiece an unruly bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.The greatest prose writer that the South produced .