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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.

A Streetcar Named Desire

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 5 March 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141190273
      978-0141190273
      ISBN-10 0141190272
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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