Join the Maxey House Book Club in the Maxey House sunroom on Thursday, June 19 at 6:00 pm to discuss Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire.
There are multiple options for reading this book! Audible and Libby have audio versions and there are multiple FREE online options:
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https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.242956/page/11/mode/2up
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http://jhampton.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/53101025/Streetcar.pdf
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https://visumbrasov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A-Streetcar-Named-Desire-2.pdf
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Description from Goodreads:
"The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s."
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The Maxey House Book Club meets every month to discuss a book with the following criteria:
1) written during the time the family lived in the Maxey House (1868-1966)
2) a non-fiction book about that period
3) a fiction book that takes place in that period
For more information, feel free to contact Elana at 903-785-5716 or
ZWxhbmEgISBiYXJ0b24gfCB0aGMgISB0ZXhhcyAhIGdvdg==. You can also go to the Maxey House Book Club's Facebook Group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/maxeyhousebookclub.
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