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1) The crucible: a play in four acts

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Miller, Arthur

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Penguin orange collection
Penguin twentieth-century classics
Penguin plays
Penguin classics

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English

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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history, " Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...

2) The crucible

Author

Miller, Arthur

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Audio theatre
Viking critical library

Language

English

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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...

3) Death of a salesman

Author

Miller, Arthur

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Audio theatre
Classic drama

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English

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Presents the script of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play in which Willy Loman, a sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman, is forced to face the reality he has avoided all his life.

4) Timebends: a life

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller-the famous playwright of The Crucible, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, and other plays-Timebends reveals Miller's incredible trajectory as a man and a writer. Born in 1915, Miller grew up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, developed leftist political convictions during the Great Depression, achieved moral victory against McCarthyism in the 1950s, and became president of PEN International...

5) The ride down Mt. Morgan

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Miller, Arthur

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook

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Lyman Felt has it all. Wealth, success, power and the kind of good solid wife he needs. Oh, and he also has another wife, the kind of earthy, sexy woman he wants. Lyman juggles his artful lie until a car accident on the slippery slope of Mt. Morgan lands him in a hospital bed and the two wives in the waiting room. But really, is there any such thing as "just an accident?" Includes an interview with Robert M. Collins, author of Transforming America:...

6) Jane's blanket

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Miller, Arthur

Language

English

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Initially dependent on her baby blanket for security, Janie uses it less and less until she discovers a bluebird needs it more than she does.

7) The Man Who Had All the Luck

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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The Man Who Had All the Luck is a charming story of the fate of a young Midwestern man whose fortune shines on him while it passes over everyone else around him. The play wrestles with the unanswerable - the question of the justice of fate, how it was that one man failed and another, no more or less capable, achieved some glory in life.

8) The Price

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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Arthur Miller's deeply moving drama reunites two long estranged middle aged brothers. Nostalgia and recrimination erupt as they sell off an attic of furniture, their last link to a family and a world that no longer exist. This 1968 classic is a wrenching saga of plaintive gestures and missed opportunities. A BBC co-production

9) After the Fall

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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Arthur Miller's famous autobiographical drama takes place inside the tortured mind of a 40-year-old lawyer. Quentin is haunted by his disastrous affair with a needy sex symbol - a character rumored to be based on Marilyn Monroe, Miller's second wife. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Amy Brenneman, Anthony LaPaglia, Amy Pietz, Amy Aquino, Gregory Itzin, Claudette Nevins, Natalija Nogulich, Al Ruscio, Raphael Sbarge and Kenny Williams....

10) All My Sons

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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World War II is over and a family, mourning a son missing in action, plants a memorial tree and tries to go on with their own lives. A storm blows down the tree and a devastating family secret is uprooted, setting the characters on a terrifying journey towards truth. A classic American drama by the late Arthur Miller. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring James Farentino, Arye Gross, Julie Harris, Mitchell Hebert, Naomi Jacobson, Barbara...

11) The Arthur Miller Collection

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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Ten essential plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the last century.

The Man Who Had All the Luck

A charming and off-beat fable about David Beeves, a young Midwestern man whose good fortune shines on him while it passes over everyone around him. The play wrestles with the unanswerable question of fate, and how some fail while others achieve some glory in life. Performed by: Emily Bergl, Kevin Chamberlin, Tim DeKay, James Gammon,

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12) Broken Glass

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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This 1994 Broadway play mixes Freudian ideals with human weakness as Sylvia Gellburg becomes paralyzed after learning of the pogroms in Nazi Germany. Her husband, Phillip has a stroke after an argument with his boss. Together, with the help of their doctor, the couple discovers that their ailing marriage may be to blame.

13) A View from the Bridge

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Miller, Arthur

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English

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Italian-American immigrant life in the 1950's textures this searing drama of love and revenge . Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice and to his niece, Catherine. When Beatrice's impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the U.S. illegally, in hope of finding work, Eddie gives them a helping hand. But when Catherine and one of the cousins fall in love, Eddie's affection for his niece turns into obsession. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast...

14) Incident at Vichy

Author

Miller, Arthur

Series

Audio theatre

Language

English

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Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

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In Vichy, France in 1942 nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned--are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers "inferiors"?