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No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great...Author
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This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century.
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Williams' Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams' lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories.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 with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams...Author
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"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 widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting,...
6) Memoirs
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For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking...Author
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"Una fiesta de cumpleaños en una plantación del Delta del Mississippi: un hombre que se está muriendo de cáncer y que ha creído toda la vida que «el animal humano es una bestia [
] que en el fondo tiene la loca esperanza de ¡poder comprar la vida eterna!» reúne a toda su familia. Una mujer a la que desprecia, un hijo mendaz, otro hijo borracho, unos nietos insoportables, el médico y el reverendo
y, en el centro de todo, una nuera bella...