Collected Stories

The complete stories of America’s distinguished playwright, Tennessee Williams.

‘Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams’s tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart’;New York Times;;Acclaimed as one of America’s most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. In Collected Stories, these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging from his first his story published in “Weird Tales’ when William was seventeen, to his later frank homosexual fantasies. ;;Williams was famous for insisting he write every morning. Even during his darkest days, while mourning a lover, or abusing some substance - he would write. The Collected Stories are from every period of his life, and recreate the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly - from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and New Orleans to his days of celebrity in Hollywood and New York.;;‘The two ingredients of Williams’s plays - great gab and steamy sex - are both here in the stories’ Edmund White, Sunday Times