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  • The Glass Menagerie

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    "The Glass Menagerie" is a memory play that explores the lives of the Wingfield family, focusing on their personal struggles and family dynamics. The play is narrated by Tom Wingfield, who reflects on the past and the impact it has had on his family. he narrator and protagonist, Tom is a young man working at a warehouse who dreams of escaping his economic hardship and achieving his aspirations. He ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In."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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    "i don’t want realism. i want magic!" Blanche DuBois—the insecure, promiscuous, archetypal Southern belle—has lost her ancestral estate. But she hasn’t lost her pretence. Penniless, she comes to stay with her sister and barbaric brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski. Contemptuous of their two-room apartment in the working-class neighbourhood of New Orleans, Blanche is met with hostility from ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot)

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    Series series New Directions Bibelot
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Glass Menagerie

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Caterpillar Dogs

    and Other Early Stories

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    Seven previously unpublished stories of the Great Depression by America’s poet laureate of the lostThese tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his voice is unmistakable.The reliable idiosyncrasies and quiet dignity of Williams’s eccentrics are already present in his characters. Consider the diminutive octogenarian of “The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time.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 jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Crazy Night

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    Series series A Mulholland / Strand Magazine Short
    From the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, a glimpse of college life on the eve of graduation.It's the last day of the academic year, and the students of a small, mid-western university are preparing for a bacchanalian celebration called Crazy Night. Our chaperone for the evening is Phil, a freshman on the verge of flunking out, who roves the fraternities in search of beer, women, ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work.They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater.Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Stairs to the Roof

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.Sixty years ago a young Tennessee Williams wrote a play looking toward the year 2001. Stairs to the Roof is a rare and different Williams' work: a love story, a comedy, an experiment in meta-theater, with a touch of early science fiction. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Sweet Bird of Youth

    by Tennessee Williams ...
    Now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based.Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy, wrenching play about a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, and about the lost innocence and corruption of Chance Wayne, reveals the dark side of the American dreams of youth and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD