Includes three plays - "Suddenly Last Summer", "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", and "Small Craft Warnings". von Williams, Tennessee

A new edition of the popular American play from 1944, edited by Stephen Bottoms. *Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes* von Williams, Tennessee

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern...

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American...

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it...

Tennessee Williams' Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams' lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together...

Endstation Sehnsucht erzählt die Geschichte von Blanche Dubois, einer Lehrerin aus den Südstaaten. Blanche erlebt die Auflösung ihrer Familie, einer nach dem anderen stirbt, sie muß zusehen, wie der einstmals stolze Besitz, das...

In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition of his plays in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works written from the 1930s to the 1980s, this...

Amanda Wingfield lebt mit ihren zwei erwachsenen Kindern in einer kleinen Wohnung in St. Louis. Amanda, frühzeitig von ihrem Ehemann verlassen, flüchtet sich ebenso in eine Traumwelt wie ihre beiden Kinder. Tom entflieht seinem...

"The Glass Menagerie" ist ein klassisches Drama, das in den 1930er Jahren in St. Louis spielt und die Geschichte der Wingfield-Familie erzählt. Die Mutter, Amanda Wingfield, lebt mit ihren beiden erwachsenen Kindern Tom und Laura in...

A Streetcar Named Desire von Williams, Tennessee

Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin...