Fading southern belle 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.|Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman
When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life
He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company
He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing
He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity
He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955
Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972).|Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski
This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois 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 Kowalski
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 drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century.Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi
When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life
He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company
He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing
He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955
Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972).If you enjoyed A Streetcar Named Desire, you might like The Glass Menagerie, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny'Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather'One of the greatest American plays'Observer

Fading southern belle 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.

Arthur Miller