A Streetcar Named Desire
Info
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- Genre: Drama
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Type: Official Play Book
- Release: Oct 25, 2007
- ASIN/ISBN: 0811216020
- Rating:
- Status: Read (224 Pages)
Review
On Oct 25, 2007 Corinne said:
I adore this play.
"Published in 1949 by John Lehman. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket with slight wear. There are minor foxing, nicks, and wear to the dust jacket, with an ink inscription. The basis of the 1951 film (winner of three Academy Awards) starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, Williams's play is one of the works by which 20th-century America defines itself. First English edition of this landmark, Pulitzer-Prize-winning play, featuring Williams's riveting creations."
Details
"The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature:
Play in three acts by Tennessee Williams, first produced and published in 1947 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama for that year. One of the most admired plays of its time, it concerns the mental and moral disintegration and ultimate ruin of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle. Her neurotic, genteel pretensions are no match for the harsh realities symbolized by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski."