"The House of Flowers" is a 1950 short story by

Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics ...

, first published in ''

Botteghe Oscure ''Botteghe Oscure'' was a literary journal that was founded and edited in Rome by Marguerite Caetani (Princess di Bassiano) from 1948 to 1960. History and profile ''Botteghe Oscure'' was established in 1948. The magazine was named after Rome� ...

'' Quaderno VI and reprinted in '' Breakfast at Tiffany's''. It was adapted into a musical of the same name.

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