The Portable Arthur Miller - (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Containing in full Miller's masterpieces "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman, " this collection comprises 60 years of writing from America's greatest living playwright.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/>This classic collection--the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available--presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces <i>The Crucible</i> and <i>Death of a Salesman</i>. This essential collection also includes the complete texts of <i>After the Fall</i>, <i>The American Clock</i>, <i> The Last Yankee</i>, and <i>Broken Glass</i>, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play of 1995, as well as excerpts from Miller's memoir <i>Timebends</i>. An essay by Harold Clurman and Christopher Bigsby's introduction discuss Miller's standing as one of the greatest American playwrights of all time and his importance to twentieth-century literature. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>By the Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama</b><br><b>Winner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Arthur Miller (1915-2005)</b> was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include <i>All My Sons</i> (1947), <i>Death of a Salesman</i> (1949), <i>The Crucible</i> (1953), <i> A View from the Bridge</i> and<i> A Memory of Two Mondays </i>(1955), <i>After the Fall</i> (1963), <i>Incident at Vichy</i> (1964), <i>The Price</i> (1968), <i>The Creation of the World and Other Business</i> (1972) and <i>The American Clock</i> (1980). He also wrote two novels, <i> Focus</i> (1945), and <i>The Misfits</i>, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for <i>In Russia</i> (1969), <i>Chinese Encounters</i> (1979), and <i>In the Country</i> (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, <i>Timebends</i> (1987); the plays <i>The Ride Down Mt. Morgan</i> (1991), <i>The Last Yankee</i> (1993), <i>Broken Glass</i> (1994), and <i>Mr. Peter's Connections</i> (1999); <i>Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000</i>; and <i>On Politics and the Art of Acting </i>(2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003. <p/><b>Christopher W. E. Bigsby</b> is a professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He edited the Penguin Classics editions of Miller's <i>The Crucible</i>, <i>Death of a Salesman</i>, and <i>All My Sons</i>.
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