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.From the captivating introductory question “Why study this stuff?” to the glorious full-color artwork representations to the sheer comprehensiveness of the coverage, these books are enthralling. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 'By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater.' -Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times'So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it.' -Time For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher W. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.

At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself.

Annotation: The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater.

Series Title: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics.

Subtitle: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem.

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