Hard Candy: A Book of Stories

Hard Candy: A Book of Stories is a 1954 collection of short stories by American playwright and writer Tennessee Williams.

The 1967 New Directions paperback edition, dedicated to Jane and Paul Bowles, notes that "Hard Candy" is a later version of "Mysteries of the Joy Rio", but even though on the same theme in the same setting the results are so different that both stories are included for interest. The nine stories are "Three players of a summer game", "Two on a party", "The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin", "Hard candy", "Rubio y Morena", "The mattress by the tomato patch", "The coming of something to the Widow Holly", "The vine", and "The mysteries of the Joy Rio".

Works by Tennessee Williams
  • Biography
  • Bibliography
Plays
  • Candles to the Sun (1936)
  • Spring Storm (1937)
  • Fugitive Kind (1937)
  • Not About Nightingales (1938)
  • Battle of Angels (1940)
  • The Glass Menagerie (1944)
  • You Touched Me (1945)
  • Stairs to the Roof (1947)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
  • Summer and Smoke (1948)
  • The Rose Tattoo (1951)
  • Camino Real (1953)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
  • Orpheus Descending (1957)
  • Suddenly, Last Summer (1958)
  • Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
  • Period of Adjustment (1960)
  • The Night of the Iguana (1961)
  • The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
  • The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968)
  • In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)
  • Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)
  • Out Cry (1971)
  • Small Craft Warnings (1972)
  • The Two-Character Play (1973)
  • The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)
  • This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)
  • Vieux CarrĂ© (1977)
  • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979)
  • Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
  • The Notebook of Trigorin (1981)
  • Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
  • A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
Novels
  • The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)
  • Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
Short story
collections
  • Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954)
  • Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960)
  • The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966)
  • One Arm and Other Stories (1967)
  • Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)
Screenplays
  • The Glass Menagerie (1950)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • The Rose Tattoo (1955)
  • Baby Doll (1956)
  • Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
  • The Fugitive Kind (1959)
  • Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
  • Boom! (1968)
  • The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2009)
Non-fiction
  • "The Catastrophe of Success" (1947)
Poetry
  • In the Winter of Cities (1956)
  • Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)
Unfinished
manuscripts
  • In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)
Related
articles
  • List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

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