Penguin Modern Classics: Death of a Salesman

The play where the American Dream died. The job, the house, the wife, the kids. Willy Loman has, no, hates it all… Willy is in his sixties, an exhausted salesman who dreams of wealth, freedom, respect and making it big. He has a loving wife and two adult sons. But he’s sad and angry: with his family, with himself, with his failure to progress… Arthur Miller’s startling modern masterpiece is a play that changed the course of theatre: a painful examination of the cost of consumerism and the pursuit of outward success.

• The complete playscript of Arthur Miller’s iconic work

• A modern tragic masterpiece that won the Pulitzer Prize

• Full of big questions about values and what really matters

• Every literature student should read this essential classic