Tennessee Williams: 41 books

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...

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...

A wonderful collection of never-before-collected one-acts: “The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope” (Tennessee Williams). Here are portraits of American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopelessly hopeful...

“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse...

What’s not to like about Tennessee Williams’s most forthright work about homosexual love, with its gay figure skaters, runaways, and sex? An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason has at its center the need of three people...

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...

En este volumen se reúnen los dos primeros éxitos de Tennessee Williams, que irrumpieron en la escena norteamericana con el propósito de «sustituir al teatro ya agotado de las convenciones realistas». El zoo de cristal (1945), fue el primer intento de su autor de crear un «teatro plástico»:...

The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the masters of the stage like Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams...

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...

Blanche, une femme d'une trentaine d'années aux allures de grande dame, arrive dans le quartier français de La Nouvelle-Orléans pour rendre visite à sa soeur Stella. Là, elle découvre que sa cadette a épousé un ouvrier fruste et qu'ils vivent dans un sordide appartement. Après plusieurs semaines...

La Ménagerie de verre, Un tramway nommé Désir, La Chatte sur un toit brûlant... Tout le monde connaît l'oeuvre de dramaturge de Tennessee Williams, lyrique, exaltée, adaptée au grand écran avec la postérité que l'on sait. Pourtant, en privé, l'homme se définissait avant tout comme un poète,...

"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters “I cannot write any sort of story,” said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] “unless there is at least one character in it...

The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a...