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An edition of Death of a Salesman (1940)

Death of a Salesman

Bigsby Introduction edition (29)

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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 sixty-three, 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.

Miller's masterpiece has steadily seen productions all ove rthe world since its 1949 debut. As the noted Miller scholar Christopher Bigsby states in his Introduction, "if Willy's is an American dream, it is also a dream shared by all those who are aware of the gap between what they might have been and waht they are."
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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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April 10, 2003, Actes Sud
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Death of a Salesman
1998, Penguin Books
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Diwedd Dyn Bach
October 1993, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
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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
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Death of a Salesman
1976, Penguin Books, Viking Press
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Death of a Salesman
1955-03, Bantam Books
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New York, USA
Series
Penguin Classics
Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.52
Library of Congress
PS3525.I5156 D4 1998, PS3525.I5156D41998

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxvii, 112p.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27899218M
ISBN 10
0141180978
ISBN 13
9780141180977
LCCN
97037223
OCLC/WorldCat
605898329, 970570186
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0141180978
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OL66346W

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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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