Collected Stories
By: [by] Tennessee Williams
Series: New Directions Paperbook ; 784
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: April 5, 1994
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9780811212694
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Short stories; Fiction - General; English; Fiction; Short Stories (Anthologies)
Notes: Includes bibliography.
The introduction by Gore Vidal appeared in a somewhat different form in the New York Review of Books.
Andreas Brown and Lyle Leverich [assisted] in dating the stories.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited.
New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Company.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
title: Preface: The Man in the Overstuffed Chair; pagenum: xix
title: Introduction; pagenum: 1
title: The Vengeance of Nitocris; pagenum: 13
title: A Lady's Beaded Bag; pagenum: 17
title: Something by Tolstoi; pagenum: 26
title: Big Black: a Mississippi Idyll; pagenum: 32
title: The Accent of a Coming Foot; pagenum: 43
title: Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton; pagenum: 49
title: Sand; pagenum: 54
title: Ten Minute Stop; pagenum: 63
title: Gift of an Apple; pagenum: 70
title: The Field of Blue Children; pagenum: 79
title: In Memory of an Aristocrat; pagenum: 93
title: The Dark Room; pagenum: 99
title: The Mysteries of the Joy Rio; pagenum: 110
title: Portrait of a Girl in Glass; pagenum: 120
title: The Angel in the Alcove; pagenum: 128
title: Oriflamme; pagenum: 134
title: The Vine; pagenum: 147
title: The Malediction; pagenum: 163
title: The Important Thing; pagenum: 175
title: One Arm; pagenum: 189
title: The Interval; pagenum: 200
title: Tent Worms; pagenum: 205
title: Desire and the Black Masseur; pagenum: 213
title: Something about Him; pagenum: 221
title: The Yellow Bird; pagenum: 229
title: The Night of the Iguana; pagenum: 246
title: The Poet; pagenum: 252
title: Chronicle of a Demise; pagenum: 257
title: Rubio y Morena; pagenum: 270
title: The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin; pagenum: 283
title: Two on a Party; pagenum: 303
title: Three Players of a Summer Game; pagenum: 326
title: The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly; pagenum: 335
title: Hard Candy; pagenum: 347
title: Man Bring This Up Road; pagenum: 359
title: The Mattress by the Tomato Patch; pagenum: 368
title: The Kingdom of Earth; pagenum: 379
title: "Grand"; pagenum: 388
title: Mama's Old Stucco House; pagenum: 398
title: The Knightly Quest; pagenum: 456
title: A Recluse and His Guest; pagenum: 464
title: Happy August the Tenth; pagenum: 477
title: The Inventory at Fontana Bella; pagenum: 484
title: Miss Coynte of Greene; pagenum: 503
title: Sabbatha and Solitude; pagenum: 519
title: Completed; pagenum: 527
title: Das Wasser Ist Kalt; pagenum: 544
title: Mother Yaws; pagenum: 552
title: The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen; pagenum: 571
title: Bibliographical Notes