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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1959
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • Now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based.

    Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy, wrenching play about a fa...







  • Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams...




  • Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in t...



  • Tennessee Williams's first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealt...



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    Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams'' The Glass Menagerie. In this touching audio, we meet the embattled Wingfield family: Amanda—faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dom...



  • This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously...








  • A collection of four plays from the master of twentieth-century American drama includes Orpheus Descending, in which a nomadic guitar player falls in love with a storekeeper's wife only to find his life plagued by violence when the townspeopl...



  • Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In 'Sweet Bird of Youth', a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home ...



  • "I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny." -- John Waters “I cannot write any sort of story,” said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] “unless ther...



  • Published as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based.

    The Rose Tattoo is larger than life―a fable, a Greek trage...



  • PERIL PRESS presents: 2 LOST TALES BY 3 FAMOUS AUTHORSWeird Tales, March 1924UNDER THE PYRAMIDS(Published as IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS)by H. P. Lovecraft(Ghost Written as by Harry Houdini)A Thrilling Adventure of the Gizeh Plateau11,200 WordsWeird...



  • From the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, a glimpse of college life on the eve of graduation.It's the last day of the academic year, and the students of a small, mid-western university are preparing for a bacchanalian celebration call...



  • What’s not to like about Tennessee Williams’s most forthright work about homosexual love, with its gay figure skaters, runaways, and sex?An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason ha...



  • Seven previously unpublished stories of the Great Depression by America’s poet laureate of the lostThese tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his voice is unmistakable. T...



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    The tragic lives of a guilt-ridden alcoholic, his sexually frustrated wife, and a tyrannical patriarch are violently exposed in Williams's renowned play about a wealthy Southern family plagued by conflict. Reissue....






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    A collection of 5 short stories from acclaimed author and playwright. Hardcover. Original jacket. Dark gray cloth. Light corner wear. Light rubbing and edge wear on jacket. Price intact. Very Good/Very Good....



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    Anne-Marie Duff stars as Blanche DuBois in BBC Radio 3’s landmark production of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece

    Tennessee Williams''s iconic play tells the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in...



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    Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true -- or at least curiously and suspensefully...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tennessee Williams has published 24 books.

Tennessee Williams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Caterpillar Dogs, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth, was published in January 1959.

No. Tennessee Williams does not write books in series.