{"id":248,"date":"2019-09-15T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T22:02:26","slug":"19-compromise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/exhibition\/1-conceptualization\/2-research\/3-dialog\/4-inspiration\/5-rewriting\/2-new-ending\/7-alterations\/8-original-version\/9-re-issue\/10-style\/11-fact-checking\/12-production\/13-proofing\/14-choices\/15-back-story\/16-mockup\/17-design\/18-design-2\/19-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"19 &#8211; Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Directions (est. 1936), publisher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hard Candy: A Book of Stories<\/em> was\nfirst published by New Directions in 1954 and Tennessee\nWilliams wanted to include \u201c<em>Kingdom of Earth<\/em>\u201d in\nthis collection. With graphic sexual and racial tension, the story is about an\nincapacitated dying man who is ignored by his lustful wife and his half-brother,\nwho is of mixed race. His publisher urged caution and omission of the\nscandalous story from the first edition, offering Williams a publishing\ncompromise: a special signed and limited edition including \u201cKingdom of Earth,\u201d which\nwas also published in 1954. The special edition includes original sheets from\nthe first edition of <em>Hard\nCandy<\/em>, but bears a cancel title page with a signed limitation\nstatement on the verso, with \u201cKingdom of Earth\u201d\nat the back of the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hard Candy<\/em> was\nalso issued as a New Directions paperback in 1967 with a dedication to Paul and\nJane Bowles. Both the 1954 and 1967 editions explained that the story \u201cHard\nCandy\u201d was a later version of \u201cThe Mysteries of the Joy Rio,\u201d both of which are\nrepresented in manuscript pages here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All items from the Norman Unger collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The Kingdom of Earth with Hard Candy: A Book of Stories<\/em>. New York: New Directions, 1954. <strong>Cancel title page<\/strong> tipped in and \u201cKingdom of Earth\u201d included. Limited to one hundred copies, this is number 72, signed by the author<\/li><li><em>The Kingdom of Earth<\/em>. <strong>Privately printed<\/strong>. New York: New Directions, 1954. A very small number of cut and folded, but <strong>unbound, signatures<\/strong> of the omitted short story \u201cKingdom of Earth\u201d were privately printed for circulation by Tennessee Williams<\/li><li><em>Hard Candy: a Book of Stories<\/em>. New Directions <strong>Paperback<\/strong>. New York: New Directions, 1967, c1954. This edition, dedicated to Jane and Paul Bowles, does not include \u201cThe Kingdom of Heaven\u201d<\/li><li>&#8220;The Mysteries of the Joy Rio\u201d (story), undated (before 1949). <strong>Typescript (carbon)<\/strong> with autograph corrections, in blue \u201cLiebling-Wood\u201d folder, 19 pages<\/li><li>\u201cHard Candy\u201d(story), Rome, August 1949. <strong>Typescript (carbon)<\/strong> in blue \u201cLiebling-Wood\u201d folder, 19 pages<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), author New Directions (est. 1936), publisher Hard Candy: A Book of Stories was first published by New Directions in 1954 and Tennessee Williams wanted to include \u201cKingdom of Earth\u201d in this collection. 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