# Death of a Salesman

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- Book: [Death of a Salesman](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller/death-of-a-salesman) ([Death of a Salesman.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller/death-of-a-salesman.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Miller](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-274-2
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2015-09-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.