Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted, driven and yet held back by empty dreams of prosperity and success.Justly celebrated as one of the most famous dramatisations of the failure of the American Dream, the play's moral and political purpose is perfectly counterbalanced by a powerful and moving human drama of a man trying to make his way in the world and of the human flaws that lead to the shattering of his family and of their figurehead. Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and considered one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, the play remains a classic work of literature and drama that is studied and performed around the world.This new edition includes an introduction by Claire Conceison that explores the play's production history as well as the dramatic, thematic, and academic debates that surround it; a must-have resource for any student exploring Death of a Salesman.

Quizá algo que nadie puede negarle a Arthur Miller es haber sido una de las grandes voces críticas del siglo XX, de los pocos que han sido consecuentes con la idea de que el teatro debe ser un lugar desde el que se remueven y azotan conciencias y se analiza la manera en que vivimos. Pero Miller nunca recurre a sermones y convierte siempre la "percepcion moral" en forma dramatica a traves de personajes claramente individualizados. Testigo de excepcion de hechos importantes del siglo XX, la Gran Depresion de los años 30, la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Guerra Fria, el maccarthysmo, la guerra de Vietnam, el derrumbe del comunismo e incluso la caida de las Torres Gemelas, sobre todos ellos ha expresado su punto de vista desde la creacion dramatica o desde sus escritos teoricos o periodisticos."La muerte de un viajante" esta unanimemente considerada la obra cumbre de Arthur Miller. La fuerza de la historia reside tanto en lo que cuenta como en la manera de contarlo. La obra nos relata las ultimas veinticuatro horas en la vida de un viajante de sesenta y tres años llamado Willy Loman, con un magistral retrato de unos personajes que, siendo portavoces de una epoca, son por encima de todo unicos y singulares, en una atmosfera onirica, inquietante y emotiva.

Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that he's too strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something bigger, deeper is wrong, and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he can't face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.

Durant la seva llarga i prolífica carrera, Arthur Miller ha descrit alguns dels aspectes més obscurs del caràcter nord-americà i ens ha fet reconèixer a nosaltres mateixos. Amb Una noia qualsevol pin

In his lifetime the great American playwright Arthur Miller published two highly regarded collections of stories, "I Don't Need You Any More" (1967) and "Homely Girl, a Life" (1995). Shortly after his death in 2005 a final collection, "Presence" (2007), appeared. Now, all eighteen of these stories are gathered together in one volume for the first time, including the six from "Presence", previously only published in the USA. In his plays Miller took on the big themes of the day, putting stories of the Depression, wartime deceit and the McCarthy era on stage with an energy and passion not seen before and rarely since. In these stories he turns his attention to smaller, more intimate themes, yet still brings to bear the profound insight, humanism, empathy and wit of his work for the theatre. Including the early, O. Henry Award-winning "I Don't Need You Anymore", the original story of "The Misfits" on which the film was based, and the beautiful late story "Presence", this collection offers a fresh perspective on the great writer and his work, here informed by an unusual sensuality and delicacy. When "Homely Girl, a Life" was published in America the critic for the "New York Times" wrote of those three stories: 'The ability to sum up in clear, unequivocal prose the essence of emotion, a situation, a theme - characteristic of Mr Miller's best writing - makes the reader wish that these stories were longer, and that there were more of them.' At last there are.

In this posthumous gathering of Miller's last published fiction, readers will find stories that appeared in "The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire," and elsewhere. A moving, final collection of stories by Arthur Miller Throughout his career as one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller wrote a remarkable series of highly regarded short stories, pieces that reveal the same profound insight, humanism, and empathy that are the hallmarks of his great dramatic works. "Presence" is a posthumous gathering of Milleras last published fiction, a group of stories that appeared in "The New Yorker, Harperas, Esquire," and elsewhere. aBulldoga describes a young teenageras surprising first sexual experience while aPresencea relates a manas encounter with a woman he has just seen making love on a beach. aBeaversa tells a haunting tale of nature, creation, and destruction. In aThe Performance, a a Jewish tap dancer enthralls Hitler. aThe Bare Manuscripta reveals a writeras unusual methods to revive his muse, and, finally, aThe Turpentine Stilla presents a portrait of a man examining his legacy. Displaying the sureness of an artist in his autumnal prime, "Presence" is a gift that all fans of Milleras work, as well as readers of contemporary fiction, will welcome.

An unforgettable portrait of a self-deluded anti-hero and the failure of the American dream; a classic parable of mass hysteria that became a powerful indictment of McCarthyism; a depiction of a family haunted by the death of their son and other ghosts of the past; a tragic examination of how one man''s unhealthy obsession leads to the ultimate betrayal. DEATH OF A SALESMAN, THE CRUCIBLE, ALL MY SONS and A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE are the masterpieces which secured Arthur Miller''s place as the leading figure of the American stage. In time for his centenary celebrations in October 2015, Penguin Classics will publish a clothbound hardback edition of these four essential plays alongside photographs of the stage productions taken by Miller''s wife, Inge Morath, and other photographers.

Though best known for creating some of the greatest dramas of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller was also a master of the short story. Initially published in prestigious venues like the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Esquire, his fiction constitutes a fascinating and indispensable portion of his lifes work. Presence: Collected Stories revives and reintroduces these masterly works, making available in one volume stories previously scattered across various collections. Here, as in his best plays, Miller pulls apart the threads of American life with tender humanism and unmatched psychological realism. These stories build on the landscape of Millers drama, of Broadway dives and Brooklyn shipyards where businessmen, writers, bums, and blue-collar workers struggle for self-worth. This vital collection celebrates not just the Miller we know through his most often-performed plays, but the whole of his astounding depth as an artist.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell. But when his brother Walter, who he hasn't spoken to in years, arrives, the talk stops being just about whether Victor's been offered a fair price for the furniture, and turns to the price that one and not the other of them paid when their father lost both his fortune and the will to go on!

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business. Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin to mistake him for a Jew.