Three By Tennessee [Mass Market Paperback]

Tennessee Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 7, 2003

Three timeless works by Tennessee Williams, the foremost American playwright of his time.

Sweet Bird of Youth
The Rose Tattoo
The Night of the Iguana

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The greatest U.S. playwright since Eugene O'Neill. -- Time

About the Author

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 evening 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 Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Signet Classics (October 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451529081
• ISBN-13: 978-0451529084
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #8 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Authors, A-Z > ( W ) > Williams, Tennessee

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, February 11, 2004

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This review is from: Three By Tennessee (Mass Market Paperback)

It's amazing how well the works of Mr. Williams have held up after all these years. Then again, when you write classics that's what they're supposed to do.

While all these plays are great, NIGHT OF THE IGUANA is by far his best. My favorite line: "Oh,God, can we please stop now." I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea.

But the most remarkable thing about Mr. William's plays are that, while they almost always deal with the south, decay, decadence, incredible insight into the human condition, and graphic and moving looks into the human heart, they are all completely different. How much this man must have lived to have produced this varied and complex a body of work.

If you're a fan of Southern literature, and especially Tennessee Williams, please check out some other "finds:" OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS by Capote, BARK OF THE DOGWOOD by McCrae, and AVA'S MAN by Bragg.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly Insightful, February 23, 2008

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This review is from: Three By Tennessee (Mass Market Paperback)

I hope to read this one many times. Each time will generate a new insight; a new revelation. The multi-layers of the human condition are all here in their raw glory. Williams could see well beyond the horizon from the atmospheric veranda at the Costa Verde.

Fantastic!