Published in 1949 by John Lehman. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket with slight wear. There are mino r foxing, nicks, and wear to the dust jacket, with an ink inscription. The basis of the 1951 film (winner of three Academy Awards) starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, Williams's play is one of the works by which 20th-century America defines...(展开全部)

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller ( Death of a Salesman and The Crucible ), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee...(展开全部)

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 DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche Du...(展开全部)

Published in 1949 by John Lehman. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket with slight wear. There are mino r foxing, nicks, and wear to the dust jacket, with an ink inscription. The basis of the 1951 film (winner of three Academy Awards) starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, Williams's play is one of the works by which 20th-century America defines...(展开全部)

This title is suitable for ages 4-8. Sometimes life presents us with unexpected magical moments. So it is in this tale of a snowman named just Bob: when a young child builds a snowman, he comes to life just long enough to impart a few thoughts about the importance of building and holding friendships dear. Illustrated with warmth and whimsy, this book is a classic story the whol...(展开全部)

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)

A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times. Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, in her native Yorkshire where her lover is involved in ...(展开全部)

A.S.拜厄特 世界文学泰斗，英国小说家，布克奖得主。被评为“1945年来英国50位伟大作家”之一。 1990年凭借天才之作《占有》获得布克奖，一举轰动世界文坛；1990年和1999年，先后被授予大英帝国司令勋章和大英帝国女爵士勋章。 拜厄特以令人叹为观止的博学和绮丽高超的的修辞艺术闻名，主题涉及生物学、达尔文主义、绘画艺术，体裁包含戏剧、诗歌、书信，兼之以丰富的隐喻和超凡的想象力，作品磅礴壮丽，又洞悉人性之微。 拜厄特女性成长四部曲是她耗时近30年写就的极具盛名的代表作，以一位英国知识女性弗雷德丽卡的成长史诗，串联起二战后几十年英国的历史变迁。

This intoxicating novel stands on its own, while forming a triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet depicting the clashing forces in English life from the early 1950s to 1970. While Frederica falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves...(展开全部)

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)