The Portable Arthur Miller (Viking Portable Library) - Softcover

Miller, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140150714 ISBN 13: 9780140150711

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1977

Synopsis

Offers four of Miller's plays and selected prose and poetry, with biographical and bibliographical information

About this title

About the Author

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), and Mr. Peter's Connections (1999); Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000; and On Politics and the Art of Acting (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.

Christopher W. E. Bigsby is a professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He edited the Penguin Classics editions of Miller's The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, and All My Sons.

From Library Journal

This duo offer a vast array of the venerable Miller's life and work. The 1971 Portable includes his most famous plays-Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, etc.-while in his autobiography, Timebends, Miller unfolds his life "with sharp characterizations and vivid imagery" (LJ 10/15/87).
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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140150714
• ISBN 13: 9780140150711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Clurman Harold