Tennessee Williams 
Streetcar Named Desire [EPUB ebook] 

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 Du Bois and Stanley Kowalski. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers’Fading southern belle Blanche Du Bois 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.This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.’Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny’Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather’One of the greatest American plays’Observer