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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.

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD

ISBN-100141190272

ISBN-139780141190273

eBay Product ID (ePID)87968487

Product Key Features

Book TitleA Streetcar Named Desire

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicLiterature, Poetry & Criticism

GenreDrama Texts, Plays & Screenplays

AuthorTennessee Williams

Book SeriesPenguin Modern Classics

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height198 mm

Item Weight100 g

Item Width7 mm, 129 mm

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication2000-2010

EditorE. Browne

Country/Region of ManufactureLondon, United Kingdom

SeriesPenguin Modern Classics

Pagination128

Title_AuthorTennessee Williams

Introduction byArthur Miller

Edited byE. Browne

Author BiographyTennessee 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 impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972).

First Published2009