Tennessee Williams

Zima, vyzvannaja zloj magiej Ineluki, Korolja Bur, vorvalas v Svetlyj Ard. Kogda-to povarenok, a teper pobeditel drakona, Sajmon i ego drug Binabik nesut odin iz trekh legendarnykh mechej printsu Dzhoshua. Na ikh puti cherez zemli kanukov i sitkhi zhdut ispytanija i smertelnye lovushki. Prints Dzhoshua s malenkim otrjadom, poterpev porazhenie pri Naglimunde, bezhit ot nornov cherez luga tritingov. Doch verolomnogo korolja Eliasa, Miriamel, pytaetsja skrytsja ot ottsa. Ikh dorogi skhodjatsja u Skaly Proschanija, uvidennoj v prorocheskikh snakh. Pervyj tom romana "Skala Proschanija". "V etom panoramnom, energichnom i chasto volnujuschem prodolzhenii "Trona iz kostej drakona" Uiljams iskusno spletaet voedino istorii puteshestvija geroev, predveschaja epicheskoe i slavnoe zavershenie". - Publishers Weekly "Fentezijnyj ekvivalent "Vojny i mira". - Locus

Otkrojte zavesu tajny nad sobytijami, kotorye proiskhodili za 1000 let do sjuzheta "Pamjati, Skorbi i Shipa"! V dalekie vremena sitkhi protsvetali pod vnimatelnym vzorom mudrykh vlastitelej, a chelovecheskaja zhadnost esche ne razdula ogon vrazhdy mezhdu smertnymi i bessmertnymi. No krome zhadnosti est i gordynja. I nachinaetsja eta istorija v tot moment, kogda gordynja tolkaet printsa Ineluki k bezrassudnoj kljatve srazit drakona - Chernogo Chervja Khidokhebi. Starshego brata printsa, Khakatri, i ego vernogo oruzhenostsa Pamona Kesa iz naroda tinukeda'ja, zhdet mnozhestvo ispytanij, ved imenno im predstoit predotvratit katastrofu, kotoruju neset s soboj kljatva Ineluki, voshedshego v istoriju kak besposchadnyj Korol Bur. "Neotemlemaja chast ljuboj biblioteki nauchnoj fantastiki i fentezi". - Kristofer Paolini "Ted Uiljams - prevoskhodnyj rasskazchik, a knigi pro Svetlyj Ard - ego shedevr. Vozvraschenie Uiljamsa v Svetlyj Ard stol zhe ubeditelno, gluboko i krasochno, kak i pervaja trilogija, i on prodolzhaet pisat s opytom i masterstvom avtora, nakhodjaschegosja na vershine svoej karery". - Brendon Sanderson "Povestvovanie vedetsja vernym do poslednego vzdokha oruzhenostsem Khakatri, Pamonom Kesom, v nem chuvstvuetsja vesomost i neizbezhnost, chto khorosho sochetaetsja s ochevidnym vlijaniem Tolkina". - Publishers Weekly

Vtoroj tom epicheskoj fentezi Teda Uidjamsa "Korona iz vedminogo dereva". Tridtsat let nazad Ineluki, Korol Bur, byl poverzhen, a ego armii rassejany. S tekh por Svetlyj Ard mirno suschestvoval pod vlastju Sajmona Snezhnoj Prjadi i Miriamel, docheri i naslednitsy korolja Eliasa. Na Severe, v ledjanoj gore-kreposti Korolja Bur Nakigge, prosypaetsja ot glubokogo mnogoletnego sna Koroleva nornov. Ona velit svoemu narodu unichtozhit mir ljudej. Ee kolduny vernut iz nebytija pavshego demona, a otrjady Kogtej nachnut ryskat po Ardu v poiskakh krovi zhivogo drakona... I, nakonets, velichajshij artefakt, Korona iz vedminogo dereva, budet prinadlezhat ej.

Tennessi Uiljams (1911-1983) izvesten prezhde vsego kak vydajuschijsja dramaturg, odnako v ego tvorcheskom nasledii zametnoe mesto zanimaet poezija. Chitateljam predlagaetsja dvujazychnoe izdanie, vesma predstavitelnyj poeticheskij sbornik. Eto pervaja v Rossii kniga stikhotvorenij Tennessi Uiljamsa, napisannykh im v raznye gody zhizni. Znakomstvo s ego poeziej znachitelno obogatit predstavlenie chitatelej o tvorchestve avtora, o ego slozhnom i protivorechivom vnutrennem mire.Net somnenij, chto iz dvukh vdokhnovitelnits - Melpomeny i Evterpy - vtoraja stala naveschat Tennessi Uiljamsa ranshe, a vot izvestnost i materialnyj uspekh prinesla pervaja. V samom dele, k sozdaniju pes on prishel otnositelno pozdno, uspev isprobovat sebja i v zhanre korotkogo rasskaza, i v esseistike. Chto zhe kasaetsja stikhov, pervye opyty na etoj nive otnosjatsja k detskomu i podrostkovomu vozrastu. V dalnejshem v tvorchestve Uiljamsa obe muzy shli ruka ob ruku, pri etom stikham svojstvenna osobaja ispovedalnost, oni ne rasschitany na kommercheskij uspekh i pisalis skoree dlja sebja, slovno dnevnikovye zapisi.(Iz predislovija Eleny Pecherskoj)Perevodchik: Pecherskaja Elena Georgievna

Tennessee Williams, one of America's most beloved playwrights, reads from his own work in an extraordinary and historic recording from the very earliest of the Caedmon archive.This audiobook opens with the playwright reading the wistful opening monologue and the tragic ending of his Pulitzer Prize-winning memory play, The Glass Menagerie. In addition, Williams reads a collection of his light and charming poetry that skillfully displays his range and skill. And Williams ends with his uproariously wicked short story, The Yellow Bird.

Tennessee Williams, one of America's most beloved playwrights, reads from his own work in an extraordinary and historic recording from the very earliest of the Caedmon archive.This audiobook opens with the playwright reading the wistful opening monologue and the tragic ending of his Pulitzer Prize-winning memory play, The Glass Menagerie. In addition, Williams reads a collection of his light and charming poetry that skillfully displays his range and skill. And Williams ends with his uproariously wicked short story, The Yellow Bird.

Tennessee Williams, one of America's most beloved playwrights, reads from his own work in an extraordinary and historic recording from the very earliest of the Caedmon archive.This audiobook opens with the playwright reading the wistful opening monologue and the tragic ending of his Pulitzer Prize-winning memory play, The Glass Menagerie. In addition, Williams reads a collection of his light and charming poetry that skillfully displays his range and skill. And Williams ends with his uproariously wicked short story, The Yellow Bird.

Dobro pozhalovat v Svetlyj Ard! V preddverii zimy norny, deti Sada, pokidajut zemli smertnykh severjan. V smjatenii otstupajut k starinnoj kreposti Nakkige, kotoruju budut zaschischat vo imja korolevy pod predvoditelstvom generala Suno'ku. Khikeda'ja prozhili zdes pochti tri tysjacheletija, no gora - svjaschennyj Pik Bur - po-prezhnemu tait mnozhestvo sekretov, izvestnykh lish Ordenu Pesni. V napolnennoj temnym koldovstvom bitve na kraju mira, v samoj neprijatnoj iz chuzhbin, sojdutsja ljudi, kadavry, teni i Belye lisy. Bezumie i smert stanet nagradoj zakhvatchikov.

Anne-Marie Duff stars as Blanche DuBois in BBC Radio 3â??s landmark production of Tennessee Williamsâ?? masterpieceTennessee Williams's iconic play tells the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.

Sweet Bird of Youth is Tennessee William's atmospheric play of 1959 about Chance Wayne, the one-time heart-throb of his hometown who returns hoping to break into the movies and find the girl he loved in his youth. Accompanied by faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, grieving in a haze of drugs and alcohol for her lost youth, he discovers that time is shortly to catch-up with him and wreak a terrible retribution for his past actions. In its exploration of corruption, ageing and the effects of time, the play offers a magnificent study of the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame. This Student Edition provides an extensive introduction and notes by Katherine Weiss. The introduction includes a chronology of Williams' life and times, a summary of the plot, commentary on the characters, themes, language and context, and a production history of the play. Together with questions for further study and notes on words and phrases from the text, this is the essential edition of the play for students of literature and drama.

A Streetcar Named Desire shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South - an old-world graciousness and beauty running decoratively to seed - set against the rough-edged, aggressive materialism of the new world. Through the vividly characterised figures of Southern belle Blanche Dubois, seeking refuge from physical ugliness in decayed gentility, and her brutal brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, Tennessee Williams dramatises his sense of the South's past as still active and often destructive in modern America. This revised edition features a new production history of the play that considers both stage and screen presentations, an updated bibliography and extensive notes on the language of the play. Commentary and notes by Patricia Hern and Michael Hooper.

This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman's entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.

An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason has at its center the need of three people for each other: Lance, the beautiful black figure skater full of love and lust for young men as well as a craving for drugs; the nameless gay young narrator, a runaway writer from Alabama who lives near the piers of New York City's West Village, c. 1975, frantically filling notebooks with his observations; and Moise, a young woman who speaks in riddles and can never finish her paintings or consummate her affairs. The long unavailable Moise and the World of Reason represents a kind of uncensored Williams, radically frank, fully articulated, and deeply tender: a true gem.

Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, lewd vagrant Carol Cutrere, and religious visionary Vee Talbot.Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a short morality play, has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial, the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion.With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer this volume also offers Williams 's related essay, The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps, and a chronology of the playwright 's life and works.

The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope. Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams's lesser-known one-act plays reveal a tantalising and fascinating perspective to one of the world's most important playwrights.Written between 1934 and 1980, the plays of the very young writer, then of the successful Tennessee Williams, and finally of the troubled man of the 1970s, this volume offers a panoramic yet detailed view of the themes, demons, and wit of this iconic playwright.The volume depicts American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopelessly hopeful chorus girl, a munitions manufacturer ensnared in a love triangle, a rural family that deals "justice" on its children, an overconfident mob dandy, a poor couple who quarrel to vanquish despair, a young "spinster" enthralled by the impulse of rebellion, and, in The Magic Tower, a passionate artist and his wife whose youth and optimism are not enough to protect their 'dream marriage.'This collection gathers some of Williams's most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas: 'The Pretty Trap,' a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and 'Interior: Panic,' a precursor to A Streetcar Named Desire.Plays included are: At Liberty, The Magic Tower, Me, Vashya, Curtains for the Gentleman, In Our Profession, Every Twenty Minutes, Honor the Living, The Cast of the Crushed Petunias, Moony's Kid Don't Cry, The Dark Room, The Pretty Trap, Interior: Panic, Kingdom of Earth, I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays and Some Problems for The Moose Lodge. The volume also features a foreword by Terence McNally.