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Memories, dreams, and illusions shatter in a family’s fragile reality.

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    19 April 2009

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Summary

The Glass Menagerie: A Play of Memory and Illusion

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield seeks solace in memories of her idyllic past in Blue Mountain, where she was courted by numerous ‘gentleman callers.’ Her son, Tom, a poet working in a warehouse, yearns for adventure and freedom from his mother’s stifling presence. Meanwhile, Laura, Amanda’s shy and physically disabled daughter, finds solace in her collection of glass animals and cherished memories. Amanda’s burning desire to secure a husband for Laura leads to the arrival of a long-awaited gentleman caller, but the encounter shatters Laura’s romantic illusions.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141190266
ISBN-10:0141190264
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:Tennessee Williams, E. Browne, Robert Bray
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Edition:1st
Release Date:19 April 2009
Weight:90g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 7mm
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Critics Review

With the advent of The Glass Menagerie … Tennessee Williams emerged as a poet-playwright and a unique new force in theatre throughout the world. – Lyle Leverich in Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams

About The Author

Tennessee Williams

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 are The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), 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). He died in 1983.

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