Large 8vo. xi, 333 pp, introduction, Letters: May 15, 1940-February 5, 1965; epilogue, appendix, index. Edited with comments by Donald Windham: Second Printing, 1977. Whit hald-cloth with powder-blue paper-covered boards and gilt lettering to front board and spine. "These were the first collected letters by Tennesse Williams to be published. Williams was 28 when he met the nineteen-year-old Windham. Most of the letters are from the years 1940-1951, when the two writers were still passing from obscurity to success, when, as Williams says in a late letter, 'the world demanded less and the heart gave more.'" from the jacket flap.

Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham 1940-1965

Biographies & Memoirs

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HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her youth and legendary beauty slipped away. So she escapes to Rome. But even the distractions of the Eternal City cannot stop old age wrinkling its way into her life. Frantic, she decides to take a lover, a young and very handsome Italian, being prepared to invest in his body for good return. But the price is too expensive. Not in money, but in her dignity.

The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone

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Random House Pod

Five O'Clock Angel

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"Period of adjustement" is about marital problems that surface at Christmas, in a comedy of human foibles and frustrations; "Summer and Smoke" is a turn of the century drama set in Mississippi. "Small Craft Warnings" is set in a bar on the Californian coast, where a group of people grapple with existence and survival.

Period of Adjustment (Twentieth Century Classics)

Penguin Classics

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 fame. Distinguished American playwright Lanford Wilson has written an insightful Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams’ original Foreword to the play; the one-act play The Enemy: Time―the germ for the full-length version, published here for the first time; an essay by Tennessee Williams scholar, Colby H. Kullman; and a chronology of the author’s life.

Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar named Desire / The Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

"Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the bed-sitting room of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy Mississippi Delta cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Brick's wife Maggie the "Cat". "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death.  There are several variations of the play script. Einstein Books' "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" contains the original script by Williams, and also the 1955 Broadway version, which was directed by Elia Kazan and had a different final third act.   Einstein Books' edition of "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" contains supplementary texts: • “I Rise In Flame, Cried The Phoenix”, by Tennessee Williams, which presents a fictionalized version of the death of English writer D. H. Lawrence on the French Riveria; Lawrence was one of Williams' chief literary influences. • An excerpt from “Spring Storm”, which Williams wrote while studying as an apprentice. "Spring Storm" received poor reviews in Williams’s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California.  • A Few Selected Quotes Of Tennessee Williams.

Cat on a hot tin roof ; [and], The milk train doesn't stop here anymore ; [and], The night of the iguana (Penguin plays)

Period of Adjustment (Penguin Plays)

Dramas & Plays

Tennesee Williams' landmark play exposes the emotional lies governing relationships in the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins. The patriarch, Big Daddy, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. His two married sons, Gooper (Brother Man) and Brick, have returned for the occasion, the former with his pregnant wife and five children, the latter with his wife Margaret (Maggie). "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is a brutally honest examination of homosexuality, father/son relationships, greed, manipulation, ageing, and death.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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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, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.

The Glass Menagerie (Modern Classics (Penguin))

Baby Doll and Other Plays

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