Read by Harry Roan. — 40 kbit/s 2 ch stereo. — Duration ~ 4 hours.
The Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) brought together the title novella and three shorter tales: "House of Flowers, " "A Diamond Guitar" and "A Christmas Memory. " The heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly, became one of Capote's best known creations, and the book's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of my generation. "
For Capote, "The Breakfast at Tiffany's was a turning point, as he explained to Roy Newquist (Counterpoint, 1964):
I think I've had two careers. One was the career of precocity, the young person who published a series of books that were really quite remarkable. I can even read them now and evaluate them favorably, as though they were the work of a stranger. My second career began, I guess it really began with Breakfast at Tiffany's. It involves a different point of view, a different prose style to some degree. Actually, the prose style is an evolvement from one to the other—a pruning and thinning-out to a more subdued, clearer prose. I don't find it as evocative, in many respects, as the other, or even as original, but it is more difficult to do. But I'm nowhere near reaching what I want to do, where I want to go. Presumably this new book is as close as I'm going to get, at least strategically.
Unfortunately, I (the uploader) didn't find yet the texts of the short-stories wich were presented in this archivers as well (That are: "House of Flowers": "A Diamond Guitar" and "A Christmas Memory" . But the Capote's novella "The breakfast at Tiffany's" was presented intact. This book is a masterpiece undoubtfully. So, read it, listen to it and enjoy of it, dear downloader. But take it in mind, that if you have found it out in E-Net, or may be in posessing the paper-copy of this book as your own, would you be so kind to share of it with those, who extremly desired of it (Me, for example) for the full set to be compiled up. Presently, dear downloader, anyway, enjoy it as it is. This book ( and oudio as well) the masterpiece.
Be successful on your way to English studing and learning, dear downloader.
With All the Best Wishes to you, I am - KingFisheR. Enjoy.