# The Glass Menagerie

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- Authors: [Tennessee Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-03-05

## Description

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.

## Editions

### The Glass Menagerie

- Publisher: BBC Digital Audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 1 h 44 min
- ISBN: 978-17-8753-466-7
- Published: 2019-11-21
- Language: en_GB

### The Glass Menagerie

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-506-1
- Published: 2014-04-24
- Language: en_GB

### The Glass Menagerie

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-026-6
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2009-03-05
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Die Glasmenagerie](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams/de/die-glasmenagerie) (de_DE)
- [Ο γυάλινος κόσμος](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams/el/o-gyalinos-kosmos) (el_GR)
- [La Ménagerie de verre](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams/fr/la-menagerie-de-verre) (fr_FR)
- [ガラスの動物園](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams/ja/garasu-no-dobutsuen) (ja_JP)