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The epigraph by Emily Dickinson is from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, published by Little, Brown & Co. “My Shadow” paraphrased from Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses, 1885.

Cover design by Ben Wiseman/Rodrigo Corral Design

First published clothbound by New Directions in 1961

First published as New Directions Paperbook 1156 in 2009

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Canada Books, Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.

The night of the iguana / by Tennessee Williams; introduction by Doug Wright.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8112-2078-1

I. Title.

PS3545.I5365N5 2009

812’.54—dc222009019755

New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin

by New Directions Publishing Corporation

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