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Oct 28, 1976 | ISBN 9780140481341 Buy
Oct 28, 1976 | ISBN 9781101665022 Buy
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Oct 28, 1976 | ISBN 9780140481341
Oct 28, 1976 | ISBN 9781101665022
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.“By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater.” —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times“So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it.” —Time
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of… More about Arthur Miller
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters“By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater.” —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times“So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it.” —Time
Pulitzer Prize for Drama WINNER
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