Best Selling Books by Tennessee Williams

A collection of letters from Williams to his most trusted friend reveal his feelings, opinions, and details of his everyday life.

"I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix" is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams. It presents a fictionalized version of the death of English writer D. H. Lawrence on the French Riveria; Lawrence was one of Williams'' chief literary influences. The play was completed in 1941, but was not published until 1951.The action of this play, which is imaginary, takes place in the French Riviera where D. H. Lawrence died.Not long before Lawrence''s death an exhibition of his paintu00adings was held in London. Primitive in technique and boldly sensual in matter, this exhibition created a little tempest. The pictures were seized by the police and would have been burned if the authorities had not been restrained by an injunction. At this time Lawrence''s great study of sexual passion, Lady Chatterly''s Lover, was likewise under the censor''s ban, as much of his work had been in the past.Lawrence felt the mystery and power of sex, as the primal life urge, and was the lifelong adversary of those who wanted to keep the subject locked away in the cellars of prudery. Much of his work is chaotic and distorted by tangent obsessions, such as his insistence upon the woman''s subservience to the male, but all in all his work is probably the greatest modern monument to the dark roots of creation.Einstein Books'' edition of "I Rise In Flame, Cried The Phoenix" contains supplementary texts:* Excerpt From "The Glass Menagerie", By T. Williams.* A Few Selected Quotes Of Tennessee Williams.* A Few Selected Poems Of D. H. Lawrence.