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.