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Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

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An edition of Death of a Salesman (1940)

Death of a Salesman

Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

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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.
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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
144

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flashback, literary fiction, Death of a Salesman, Play, Sales personnel, Open Library Staff Picks, Fathers and sons, American drama, Drama, Selling, Characters, Classic Literature, Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Problems, exercises, Study and teaching, Domestic drama, Willy Loman (Fictitious character), Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Loman, willy (fictitious character), drama, Plays, Father-son relationship, American literature, Death of a salesman (Miller, Arthur), Drama (dramatic works by one author), Loman, willy (fictitious character), English drama, Translations into Welsh, Welsh drama, Translations from English, Willy Loman, Criticism and interpretation

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Willy Loman (Fictitious character), Arthur Miller (1915-2005), Willy Loman, Linda, Biff, Happy, Bernard, The Woman, Charley, Uncle Ben, Howard Wagner, Jenny Stanley, Miss Forsythe, Letta

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Death of a Salesman
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Death of a Salesman
2011, Hodder Education Group, Philip Allan Updates
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Mort d'un commis voyageur
April 10, 2003, Actes Sud
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Death of a Salesman
1998, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - Bigsby Introduction edition (29)
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Diwedd Dyn Bach
October 1993, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
Paperback in Welsh
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Death of a Salesman
1989, Heinemann Educational Books
Paperback in English - Reprint
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Death of a Salesman
1979, Penguin Books
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Death of a Salesman
1976, Penguin Books, Viking Press
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
1976, Penguin Books
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
1976, Penguin Books
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Death of a Salesman
1955-03, Bantam Books
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Book Details

First Sentence

"A melody is heard, played upon a flute."

Edition Notes

Penguin Plays

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New York, USA
Copyright Date
1949

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812.5
Library of Congress
PS3525.I5156 D4 1949

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
144

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7355755M
Internet Archive
deathofsalesmanc1976mill
ISBN 10
0140481346
ISBN 13
9780140481341
LCCN
49008817
OCLC/WorldCat
1088074158
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0140481346
Library Thing
4865
Goodreads
84962

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Work Description

The blood of Willy Lohman flows in all of us. The story of the salesman who wanted more for his sons than he knew how to get, who harmed them through his well-meaning dreams but atoned with his life, is at least in part the story of all of us. That is why it is one of the most overwhelming successes of the modern American theatre.
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