Death of a Salesman

Classic Literature & Fiction

Author: Arthur Miller

Librarian’s note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman – a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Bro….Read More

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