Arthur Miller: Collected Plays Vol. 1 1944-1961 (LOA #163)

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the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included areAll My Sons, the story of an industrialist confronted with his moral lapses during World War II;Death of a Salesman, the wrenching tragedy of Willy Lomans demise;The Crucible, at once a riveting reconstruction of the Salem witch trials and a parable of McCarthyism; andA View from the Bridge, Millers tale of betrayal among Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, presented here in both the original one-act and revised two-act versions.This volume also contains the intriguing early dramaThe Man Who Had All the Luck, the first of Millers plays to be produced on Broadway, along with his adaptation of IbsensAn Enemy of the People, the autobiographical one-actA Memory of Two Mondays, and Millers novellaThe Misfits, based on the screenplay he wrote for Marilyn Monroe.LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.