Name: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
Rating: 3.712827988338192 (343 reviews)

Truman Capote

Contains four of Capote's short fictional works, the first being about a well-liked but mysterious young woman named Holly Golightly who has many devoted friends but none that really know her.

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

Breakfast at Tiffany's and three stories

A great book for getting into literature. But it is a story written by a man in the mid 20th century- and you most definitely can tell. 

Alice McWilliams

Nona Ana

I hope Holly has found a place where she belongs, too.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Annika Arguemore

Most of the time, I didn't even understand what was going on due to all the idioms and expressions I didn't know the meaning of. I guess I could have just googled the meaning of said idioms and expressions, but they were too many.

In the eyes of a man, sure, Holly Golightly would be sexy, quirky, etc. but to me, the only thing that made Holly sexy was the fact that Audrey Hepburn starred as her.

I didn't get this book at all. Color me an uncultured heathen and whatnot, but it wouldn't change the fact that I honestly didn't get it at all.

Honestly didn’t think I’d enjoy this, but I did. 

Plot points jumped about quite a bit, it was nothing to expect from a 100 pager. 

However the Doc and Lulumae storyline felt randomly placed but as it gave some context to how and why Holly is Holly, it was reasonable. It just probably could have been slightly more expanded upon.

Sad near the end with the whole cat stuff. I liked that cat lol.

Didn’t read the extra three stories because I just didn’t feel like it. Might do at a later date

Libertad Aguilar

I used to like the movie. In fact I loved the movie for the fashion and of course Audrey Hepburn. But after reading the book, I don’t feel that Capote’s ordinary life sting was caught on screen. This chick is really messed up. Like messed up. Not because of her lifestyle, to each its own but just emotionally unstable. Real life is like that I feel and Capote got it. No need for happy endings. It just is

Maria Elkoro-Iribe

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Herinneringen van een jonge schrijver aan een naïeve en tegelijkertijd geraffineerde jonge vrouw, wier levensloop hij geleidelijk aan leert kennen.

Desayuno en Tiffany's

me pareció muy bueno el primer cuento, aunque termina un poco raro y de manera abrupta. No sabía que eran tres cuentos cuando lo empecé –asumí que eran tres capítulos–, por lo que fue un poco decepcionante arrancar a leer el segundo y ver que no continuaba la primera historia.

benja

Dana Paduraru

Jude Moon

i did not think that i would love this story as much as i did, but then i found myself crying at the end.

olivia musick

3.5 / 5 - enjoyed breakfast at tiffany’s but wasn’t crazy about the other three short stories

Celeste Richardson

I’ve always adored the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It’s one of my go—to films on cold winter’s nights, when I’m home alone and feeling sick or maudlin or both. This was my first time reading Capote’s short story that spawned the classic movie. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t usurp the film’s place in my heart.

Warning: spoilers ahead!

Holly Golightly is one of the most selfish, unhappy, pitiable women I have ever read about. She's not likable. She's callous and rude unless she wants something from you, even though I do think that she means well somewhere (very) deep down. And still, she grew on me, and I felt true sympathy for her the further into the story I read. Being a wild thing is wonderful in the animal kingdom. Being a wild thing as a self-aware human being would be terrible. And that’s what Holly was: a miserable wild thing, so fearful of being caged that she would never let herself settle and be happy. 

I think that the most important line of the story is this: “Holly said she couldn’t bear to see anything in a cage.” And she couldn’t. Even if the cage was plush, or in the caged being’s best interest, nothing bothered Holly more than seeing something caged, because it was her biggest fear for herself. Yet, I think that Holly had caged herself with her lifestyle, and with her inability to call a place or a person home. And when she did try, she latched on for the wrong reasons, and her past blew up in her face, taking her future with it. 

Another line that I think was central to the story was spoken by Holly about Doc Golightly. She said “it’s better to look at the sky that live there.” In other words, it’s better to be the one left behind to mourn the wild thing than to be the wild thing that can’t be tamed, that can never find contentment no matter how lovely the cage. But, as our narrator hoped at the end of the story, so I hope that Holly found a home and a name like her nameless cat. I hope that she finally found contentment.

Aylén Abril Costantini 

Es una bella novela. El personaje de Holly es hermoso e interesante, te enamora. Pero la novela es lenta para mi gusto, no pasa mucho ...

A Short Novel and Three Stories

Trever

Holly Golightly is an intriguing character, but really I liked this mostly for the mood. I don't know, it had a feeling of reminiscence and distance from the past, combined with Capote's first-person prose. It just felt right, even at the end. But the story itself is hardly even there. It's kind of just a character study. So it's really 3.5 stars rounded up.

Fraser Simons

Better than the movie; still a product of its time in the flaws department, though. Little bit racist, sexist sometimes. I loved the writing style and prose; lent the book a different quality and experience than the movie.

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

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