Those who want to meet the "most perfect stylist of his generation" (Norman Mailer) cannot overlook his stories. In these, Capote depicts the various ways of learning to love; he describes the lost and the abandoned, who stumble between defiance and dreams; he manages to portray oddballs in such a way that it becomes impossible not to empathize with them. The extraordinary magic of his stories is primarily due to one fact: they possess soul. Capote was only nineteen when he received the prestigious "O. Henry Award" for the short story Miriam. This volume gathers Truman Capote's stories, some of which are published in German for the first time, and has now been supplemented with the newly discovered story Yachts and Such.