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†Bilingual
BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
PLAYS
Baby Doll & Tiger Tail
Camino Real
Candles to the Sun
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Fugitive Kind
The Glass Menagerie
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays
Not About Nightingales
The Notebook of Trigorin
Something Cloudy, Something Clear
Spring Storm
Stairs to the Roof
Stopped Rocking and Other Screen Plays
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sweet Bird of Youth
27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
The Two-Character Play
Vieux Carré
THE THEATRE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume I
Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire,
The Glass Menagerie
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume II
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke,
The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume III
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending,
Suddenly Last Summer
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume IV
Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment,
The Night of the Iguana
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume V
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth
(The Seven Descents of Myrtle), Small Craft Warnings,
The Two-Character Play
; The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VI
27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VII
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel and Other Plays
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VIII
Vieux Carré, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur,
Clothes for a Summer Hotel, The Red Devil Battery Sign
POETRY
Collected Poems
In the Winter of Cities
PROSE
Collected Stories
Hard Candy and Other Stories
One Arm and Other Stories
Memoirs
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume II
Where I Live: Selected Essays
A portrait of the author posing for a photograph, circa 1941.
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Introduction Copyright © 2006 John Waters
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