Breakfast at Tiffany's

Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Set in 1940s New York

It's a world where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't—except, of course, for Holly Golightly:

• Glittering socialite
• Traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways, and once in a while—down

Holly Golightly: A Cultural Icon

Pursued by:

• Salvatore 'Sally' Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing
• 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man-about-town

Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and a turned-up nose—a heartbreaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

Additional Stories Included

This edition also contains three captivating stories:

• House of Flowers
• A Diamond Guitar
• A Christmas Memory

About Truman Capote

Truman Capote (1924–84) was born in New Orleans. He left school at fifteen and worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first—and last—regular job. Capote wrote both fiction and non-fiction, including:

• Short stories, novels, and novellas
• Travel writing and profiles
• Reportage, memoirs, plays, and films

His other works include:

• In Cold Blood (1965)
• Music for Chameleons (1980)
• Answered Prayers (1986)

All are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Recommendations

If you enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany's, you might like Capote's In Cold Blood, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

Praise for Breakfast at Tiffany's

"One of the twentieth century's most gorgeously romantic fictions" — Daily Telegraph
"The most perfect writer of my generation ... I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany's" — Norman Mailer