Death of a Salesman

Death OF A SALESMANC ertain Private Conversations inTwo Acts and a RequiemARTHUR MILLERWITH AN INTRODUCTION BYCHRISTOPHER BIGSBYpPENGUIN BOOKS penguin twentieth-century classicsDEATH OF A SALESMANA rthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at theUniversity of Michigan. His plays includeAll My Sons(1947), Death ofa Salesman (1949),The Crucible(1953),A View from the BridgeandAMemory of Two Mondays(1955),After the Fall(1964),Incident at Vichy(1965),The Price(1968),The Creation of the World and Other Business(1972), andThe American Clock(1980). He has also written two novels,Focus(1945) andThe Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the textforIn Russia(1969),Chinese Encounters(1979), andIn the Country(1977),three books of photographs by Inge Morath. His most recent worksinclude a memoir,Mr. Peters Connections(1999),Echoes Down the Cor-ridor: Collected Essays 1944 2000, andOn Politics and the Art of Acting(2001).

memory he returns to that period, as if personal and national fate were somehow intertwined, while in spirit, according to Miller, he also reaches back to the more expansive and confident, if empty, 1920s, when, according to a president of the United States, the business of America was business.1

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