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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream

A Penguin Classic
 
Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher W. E. Bigsby.

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About the Author

Works of American playwrightArthur Asher MillerincludeDeath of a Salesman(1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, andThe Crucible(1953).This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebratedA View from the BridgeandAll My Sons, still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and marriedMarilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...