Early Stories by Tennessee Williams is an edited collection of thirty-one previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest during a tumultuous period for the nation and himself. The stories highlight aspects of the writer's biography relative to his young adult years in St. Louis, Columbia, and the Missouri Ozarks, offering insight into the relationships between the author, his family, and close friends. The influence of proletarian fiction and leftist ideas are evident in Williams's stories of the Great Depression, as are themes of sexual turmoil and inner passions inspired by authors like D. H. Lawrence.
In notes for each story, additional context is provided regarding locations, occupations, and individuals. All of this enriches a critical understanding of Tennessee Williams's major works such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iguana, and Suddenly Last Summer.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Early Stories by Tennessee Williams
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: New Life, New Courage, New Ideas
- Middle West
- Apt. F, 3rd Flo. So.
- Useless
- Grenada to West Plains
- Every Friday Nite Is Kiddies Nite (or Age of Retirement)
- God in the Free Ward
- The Spinning Song
- Jonquils 10¢ a Dozen
- The Lake Trip
- Nirvana
- Joe Clay’s Fiddle
- Souvenir for Bennie and Eva (or Beginning and End of a Story)
- Dago Hill
- Flowers
- Byron, the Campus Poet (or The Record of an Adolescent Katharsis)
- Square Pegs
- Corduroy Pants (or A Pack of Cigarettes)
- Venite Adoremus
- An Afternoon Off for Death
- Ironweed
- Season of Grapes (or Girl at the Lake)
- They Go Like a Thistle, He Said (or Blue Roses, or The Fur-Lined Coat)
- None but the Lonely Heart
- My Escape
- Ate Toadstools but Didn’t Quite Die
- Till One or the Other Gits Back
- Autumn Sunlight
- Stair to the Roof (or Episodes from the Life of a Clerk)
- The Caterpillar Dogs
- Oak Leaves
- Cold Stream
- Manifestations of the Erotic in the Early Stories of Tennessee Williams
- Conclusion: The Beginning and End of a Story
- Notes on the Stories
- Bibliography
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