About this book
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams that opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947.The story dramatises the life of Blanche DuBois, a Southern belle, after going through a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a New Orleans apartment building.
Considered to be Williams’ most popular work, it is one of the best and most critically successful plays of the 20th century. The play has inspired many adaptations in other forms, notably producing an acclaimed film that was released in 1951.
First line
The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river.
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New York: New Directions in 1947. Bound in pink boards, printed in black and white.
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- Title A Streetcar Named Desire
- Author Williams, Tennessee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 144
- Language EN
- Publisher Signet, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date August 13, 1986
- ISBN 9780451167781
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