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Book Description
Published in 1949 by John Lehman. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket with slight wear. There are minor 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 MaContinue
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nybooks published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010
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Victims on Broadway II
The heroine of A Streetcar Named Desire is famously alert to the significance of names; “Blanche DuBois,” as she flirtatiously points out early on in the play, means “white woods.” (“Like an orchard in spring!”) But the most meaningful name in the pl ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010
6 Reviews
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很奇妙，說不上喜歡還是不喜歡，和之前看完Scarlet Letter一樣。因此目前正在看SparkNotes（疑?）。劇情跟我原先想像的不同，原本我以為男女主角會發生什麼不倫戀的火花。此外，女主角的個性其實不太討喜，常常會想跟他說「你有完沒完阿？」。也許是因為裡面沒有一個討喜角色，所以很難說得上喜不喜歡這個劇本。但倒是每個角色都刻劃的有血有肉，每個角色都代表著某種缺陷或弱點，因此當這些弱點全部撞擊在一起，就造成最後的悲劇。
電影版的女主角請到Vivien Leigh還真的是太高明了！這個角色和Scarlett有點異曲同工之妙，我看著劇本就可以透過Vivien Leigh想像那個女主角那活靈活現 ... (continue)Stella Wang said on Apr 27, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Hardcover
- Edition: 1st English ed
- ISBN-10: 1580601006
- ISBN-13: 9781580601009
- Publisher: Collectible First Editions
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1949
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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‘The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer’
Richard Termine Cate Blanchett as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire In those days, they called it “trade.” And the queens and fag hags who used the word—especially when there was a chance of sex with a particularly butch ... (read full critics)