A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is a landmark drama detailing the catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied by Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Arthur Miller.

Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois arrives in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella. Her delusions of grandeur clash violently with Stella's crude husband, Stanley Kowalski, leading to a collision that threatens to destroy Blanche's fragile sense of identity and sanity. This steamy and shocking play was immortalized in the film starring Marlon Brando and remains one of the most influential dramas of the twentieth century.

• Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Tennessee Williams.
• Includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.
• Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series.
• Explores themes of fantasy versus reality and the crumbling of identity.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Other plays published by Penguin include The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

• Author: Williams, Tennessee
• Contributor: Miller, Arthur (introduction), Browne, E. (editor)
• Binding: paperback
• Print Length: 128 pages
• Language: English
• Publication Date: March 5, 2009
• ISBN-10: 0141190272
• ISBN-13: 978-0141190273
• Dimensions: 198 x 7 x 129mm
• Weight: 101g

If you appreciate the depth of A Streetcar Named Desire, explore The Glass Menagerie, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.