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Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel & Three Short Stories

By Truman Capote

Three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory," along with well-known novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Christmas Memory is a story of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a simple woman in her sixties, with enormous love and friendship between them.

The Diamond Guitar is about two characters who are both convicts, an older man serving a ninety-nine-year sentence for murder, and a newly arrived young man sentenced to serve two years for a stabbing, who form a fast bond that is simultaneously intimate and platonic.

House of Flowers is a poignant story of romance, mystery, and despair, dealing with the highs and lows found in our complicated lives.