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Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays & Screenplays) by Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983; Browne, E. Martin (Elliott Martin), 1900-1980 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays & Screenplays) about?
Set in St Louis during the Depression, this play is one of Tennessee Williams' most powerful and moving. Abandoned by her husband when he 'fell in love with long distances', Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace. Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983; Browne, E. Martin (Elliott Martin), 1900-1980
- Publisher
- London: Penguin Books in association with Martin Secker & Warburg
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140106398
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (218 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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