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Penguin Modern Classics presents Tennessee Williams' first successful play which has continued to win audiences over ever since Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her...

Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of stage, screen, and literature as he - often hilariously, sometimes fondly, sometimes not - remembers them: Gore Vidal, Truman...

A new edition of Tennessee Williams drama, collecting three of his most elegiac plays These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are...

A new edition of three Tennessee Williams plays that explore human suffering and kindness in all its strange guises Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these...

This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play's treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental institutions...

A drama of decay in Southern America, this depiction of patriarchy, power and repression is one of Williams' landmark works 'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi...

One of Williams' best-loved plays, this emotional rollercoaster tells the tale of the iconic Blanche DuBois and her demise by Stanley Kowalski Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of the most electrifying works in the American dramatic canon are gathered in this essential Penguin Plays...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A masterwork of American short fiction, Three Players of a Summer Game...

A collection of contemporary one-act plays by 44 established writers: Koko Abe, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Jane Bowles, Richard Ford, David Hare, Vaclav Havel, Gert Hoffman, Adrienne Kennedy, David Mamet,...

A collection of passionate and rousing plays, re-issuing in a new look. In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. The Rose...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Tennessee Williams' only novel, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, is a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew voices in American literature resonate with the same raw, tender intensity as Tennessee Williams, and Collected Stories presents the full breadth of his singular...

From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull, never before available to the general trade. The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhov's story of...

The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend. This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic....

'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant...

Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her...

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Julian Meyrick discusses a rising controversy in the repertoire of our national stages. As the mainstage vogue for resetting familiar international classics in an Australian context continues, playwrights believe their...

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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the iconic forgotten classic, the story of one man's ordinary, extraordinary life. William Stoner enters the University of...

Chronicling Isherwood's life from 1939, when he emigrated to the United States, until 1960, these entries cover some of the most turbulent years of his career and give readers insight...

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Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote Readercontains much of his published work- his dazzling fiction, includingBreakfast at...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. A cornerstone of cultural and literary theory, Marxism and Literature presents...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Leaving behind both home and beloved, a young man travels to Milan to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most consequential works of cultural criticism produced in the twentieth century, Raymond Williams's Culture and...

Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth...

In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'....

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Much Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which famous actors, from the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to...

In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events...

In the tradition of classic collections of observations and musings such as Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera and Truman Capote's The Dogs Bark , Waiting on the Moon is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the heart of English literature lies a tension so deeply embedded in the culture it is rarely questioned —...

'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most...

The complete collection of Blake's symbolic and revolutionary poems, from the deceptive simplicity of Songs of Innocence, to the grandeur of Jerusalem One of the great English Romantic poets, William...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat do Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse Daudet have in common beyond their literary genius? According to...

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Author: Raymond WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublisher: CHATTO & WINDUS, 1973Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: staining on dust jacket spineThe Country And The City presents a...