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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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Death of a Salesman
2017-08-16, Publisher not identified
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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
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2742742298 9782742742295
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Death of a Salesman
1998, Penguin Books
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Death of a Salesman
1989, Heinemann Educational Books
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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
1955-03, Bantam Books
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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.
--back cover
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Arthur Miller's Collected Plays
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Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing: 6th edition
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Collected Plays 1944-1961
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Contemporary Drama: Eleven Plays
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Literature: The Human Experience: Reading and Writing
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Literature: Structure, sound, and sense: Fourth Edition
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New Voices in the American Theatre
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Penguin Arthur Miller
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Portable Arthur Miller
- Representative Modern Plays, American
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