A Streetcar Named Desire

Author: Tennessee Williams

With an introduction by
Arthur Miller

'One of the greatest American plays'
Observer

Fading southern bell Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world.  When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley.  Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.

Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark dram, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Also by Tennessee Williams

Book Cover:  Baby Doll and Other Plays
By Tennessee Williams

'A work of art - an absorbing study of frustration, poverty and racial intoleerance'
Daily Telegraph on Baby Doll


'A work of art - an absorbing study of frustration, poverty and racial intoleerance'
Daily Telegraph on Baby Doll


Published: 08/05/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141190297
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays
By Tennessee Williams

'A wild, poetic, earthy and hilarious story of a woman's bereavement and her sensual reawakening'
-Sunday Times on The Rose Tattoo

In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.



'A wild, poetic, earthy and hilarious story of a woman's bereavement and her sensual reawakening'
-Sunday Times on The Rose Tattoo

In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss...


Published: 30/01/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141186504
RRP: $26.00
Book Cover:  Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays
By Tennessee Williams

'He is, quite simply, indispensable'
Peter Shaffer

'He is, quite simply, indispensable'
Peter Shaffer

Published: 13/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141191089
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays
By Tennessee Williams

'A writer of poetic symbolism, of mood and mystery . . . his plays stain themselves into one's heart' 
The New York Times

'A writer of poetic symbolism, of mood and mystery . . . his plays stain themselves into one's heart' 
The New York Times

Published: 06/11/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141191096
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
By Tennessee Williams

'One of the hottest, sultriest plays ever written'
Guardian


'One of the hottest, sultriest plays ever written'
Guardian


Published: 17/08/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141190280
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams

With a new Introduction by
Robert Bray

'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself'
Peter Shaffer





With a new Introduction by
Robert Bray

'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself'
Peter Shaffer





Published: 20/04/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141190266
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Memoirs
By Tennessee Williams
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media – though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review. As...
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media – though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and...
Published: 30/01/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141189291
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
By Tennessee Williams
The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays, exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, thirteen never-before-published one-act dramas reveal some of his most poignant and hilarious characters.
The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays, exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, thirteen...
Published: 27/04/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141188423
RRP: $22.95
Published:04/08/2009
Format:Paperback, 128 pages
RRP:$19.95
ISBN-13:9780141190273
ISBN-10:0141190272
Publisher:Penguin UK

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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