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Informationen zum Autor Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he began work with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway hit was All My Sons , closely followed by Death of a Salesman , The Crucible and A View from the Bridge . His other writing includes Focus , a novel; The Misfits , first published as a short story, then as a cinema novel; In Russia, In the Country, Chinese Encounters (all in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath) and ‘Salesman’ in Beijing , non-fiction; and his autobiography, Timebends , published in 1987. Among his other plays are: Incident At Vichy, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Resurrection Blues . His novella, Plain Girl , was published in 1995 and his second collection of short stories, Presence , in 2007. He died in February 2005 aged eighty-nine. Klappentext The fifth volume of Miller's plays reissued with a new jacket in the Methuen Drama World Classics series to coincide with the publication of the sixth and final volume of his plays.This fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the early nineties: his highly acclaimed The Last Yankee (1993), 'a fine and moving play...Like all Miller's best work, it effortlessly links private and public worlds by connecting personal desperation to insane American values' ( Guardian ); and The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991), which explores themes of bigamy and betrayal, 'searching, scorching, harsh but compassionate' ( Sunday Times ). Also contained in the volume is Almost Everybody Wins , the original version of the screenplay Arthur Miller wrote for Karel Reisz's film, Everybody Wins .'The greatest American dramatist of our age.' Evening Standard Zusammenfassung The fifth volume of Miller's plays reissued with a new jacket in the Methuen Drama World Classics series to coincide with the publication of the sixth and final volume of his plays. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Last Yankee; The Ride Down Mount Morgan; Almost Everybody Wins...
