The second volume of the collected works of the outstanding American prose writer, classic of post-war American literature Truman Capote, includes the writer's most famous novel, In Cold Blood. Based on the story of a true crime committed in Kansas in 1959, the book became an instant bestseller upon its publication and spawned a special genre of the reportage novel, paving the way for the prose of Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. Strictly factual and rigorously analytical, Capote's narrative reveals the nature of violence as a social and psychological phenomenon. The balanced and open-mindedness of the author's position, the brilliant precision of the style, and the polyphony of the image made the novel an outstanding example of artistic and non-fiction literature. This edition also includes the essay "Ghosts in Sunlight", dedicated to the filming of the film "In Cold Blood" (1967).