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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Category: Non-Fiction
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared-57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche D ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire (Methuen Student Editions) by Tennessee Williams; Bess Rowen (Volume Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions Ser.
A revised student edition of Tennessee Williams's classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire. This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Visiting Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play's treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental in ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Collected Stories Of Tenessee Williams by Tennessee Williams
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
"Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams' tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart". ("New York Times"). Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published fo ...Show more
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. "Suddenly Last Summer" is the starkly told story of Catherine, who seemingly goes insane after her cousin Sebastian dies in grisly circumstances on a trip to Europ ...Show more
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In "Sweet Bird of Youth", a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the gir ...Show more
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams; Stephen Bottoms (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williams's elegiac master- piece brought a radical new lyricism to Broadway -- the tragedy, fragility, and tenderness of this "memory play" have made it one of America's most ...Show more
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura ...Show more
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