A Streetcar Named Desire
Publisher: Signet
Published: August 13, 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780451154453
Description: "Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski." "A study of sexual frustration, violence, and aberration, set in New Orleans, in which Blanche Dubois' fantasies of refinement and grandeur are brutally destroyed by her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, whose animal nature fascinates and repels her." Oxford Companion to English Lit. 5th edition.