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A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams (1947)

About this book

Fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois arrives destitute at her sister Stella's cramped New Orleans apartment, igniting a catastrophic war of wills with Stella's crude, primal husband Stanley Kowalski.

Setting / LocationFrench Quarter, New Orleans
Story EraLate 1940s
Protagonist / CoreBlanche DuBois & Stanley Kowalski

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