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Années 1950, Reno, Nevada. Divorcée et désenchantée, Roslyn Tabor se lie d'amitié avec un groupe de « désaxés » composé d'un cowboy vieillissant, d'un mécanicien au coeur brisé et d'un cavalier d

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.

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.

El fracaso envuelto en palabras huecas para revestirlo de triunfo. La mentira como refugio de la realidad. El enfrentamiento y el veneno que destilan las relaciones familiares, fruto de ese mundo fingido. El despecho de los hijos hacia el padre, que se traduce en la reproduccion de ¡os mismos papeles que rechazan. La ternura y solee ad de una madre que, con la venda siempre puesta sobre los ojos, vive en una burbuja que tampoco la protegera del desastre. Los cuatro personajes de la familia del viajante son victimas tanto de su propia debilidad y cobardia como de una sociedad implacable que solo acepta y respeta a los que obtienen un exto , material, que es lo que lleva al protagonista, en su unico acto de rebeldia, a exclamar "¡No puede usted comerse la naranja y despues tirar el pellejo!". La muerte de un viajante es una de las obras teatrales que consagraron a Arthur Miller (Nueva York, 1915) como uno de los mayores dramaturgos de la literatura contemporanea. A ello contribuye tanto su genio a la hora de crear personajes de una gran complejidad, que se van desvelando a lo largo de una trama cargada de tension, como la profundidad con la que indaga en los problemas existenciales del hombre moderno.

Este volumen reúne dos obras fundamentales del notable dramaturgo americano. Todos eran mis hijos: es una de sus piezas más difundidas donde, en particular, se levanta una acusación contra los aprovechadores de la guerra. Despues de la caida: revelo una nueva dimension del riquisimo talento de Arthur Miller. La pieza explora la atormentada conciencia de un personaje absorbente (Quentin) que, en gran medida, actua como alter ego del autor, y su relacion con Maggie ( que no es otra que Marilyn Monroe).

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.

L’any 1955, deu anys després del desenllaç de la Segona Guerra Mundial, la immigració il·legal és una realitat generalitzada als Estats Units. Eddie Carbone, un honrat treballador d’origen italià, vi