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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
$19.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
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
Memoirs by Tennessee Williams
$30.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When "Memoirs" was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwrig ...Show more
Notebooks by Tennessee Williams
$85.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tennessee Williams's "Notebooks", here published for the first time, presents by turns a passionate, whimsical, movingly lyrical, self-reflective, and completely uninhibited record of the life of this monumental American genius from 1936 to 1981, the year of his death. In these pages, Williams (1911-198 ...Show more
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
$24.95 NZD
Category: 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
The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays: "Camino Real","Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams
$31.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. "The Rose Tattoo" is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief, until she has her romantic illusions about her dead husband shattered a ...Show more
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