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The Knightly Quest: A Novella & Four Short Stories
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183 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1966
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Tennessee Williams
755 books3,721 followersThomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth.
Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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October 3, 2020“The Knightly Quest: A Novella and Four Short Stories” is Tennessee Williams’s third fiction collection, and while it has many terrific pages, I can’t say that the relaxed censorship rules of the mid-‘50s-to-mid-‘60s era made him a better artist than he was in the slyly perverse period of “One Arm and Other Stories,” his best book of this kind. But he was a truly marvelous writer, and even the exaggerated whimsy of the “Knightly Quest” novella has its charms. In all, recommended almost as highly as its predecessors.
March 1, 2009
n the short story form, Williams can go even further with his eccentric charters than he can in his plays. I'd strongly recommend the novella The Knightly Quest to anyone who thinks they know the style of Tennessee Williams.
September 20, 2007
His short stories are odd: they're missing something. But there's the best line at the beginning Night of the Iguana about this southern family having finicky old maids of both sexes.
December 11, 2010
un bon recueil de nouvelles par Ttenessee Williams.
June 3, 2015
Beautiful and sad book of stories. Best paired with a bottle of wine, a lost love and old movies. A few queer protagonists but not many details or characters that stuck with me.
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