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An edition of Death of a Salesman (1940)

Death of a Salesman

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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.
--back cover

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Language
English
Pages
139

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Death of a Salesman
2017-08-16, Publisher not identified
Paperback in English
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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
Mass Market Paperback in French
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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
Mass Market Paperback in English - Reprint
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
1976, Penguin Books
in English - Reprint
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Death of a Salesman
1976, Penguin Books, Viking Press
Paperback in English - Reprint (50)
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Death of a Salesman
1955-03, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 3rd printing, new edition

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Edition Notes

CAN/US

Published in
New York
Series
Penguin Plays
Copyright Date
1949

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
139p.
Number of pages
139

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32030529M
Internet Archive
deathofsalesmanc0000mill_g1t9
ISBN 10
0140481346
ISBN 13
9780140481341
LCCN
49008817
OCLC/WorldCat
1088074158, 593159, 87868331, 16187, 3143230, 506679405
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0140481346
Goodreads
18123708

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.
--back cover

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