书名：Death of a Salesman 推销员之死
作者：Arthur Miller阿瑟·米勒
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2000
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141182742
商品尺寸：12.9 x 0.7 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：112

Death of a Salesman《推销员之死》是美国剧作家阿瑟·米勒创作的一部两幕剧，于1949年首演，在百老汇连续上演了七百四十二场，一举囊括了托尼奖、普利策奖和纽约戏剧评论奖，从而使其赢得了国际声誉。本书为英文版剧本书，适合有一定英文基础的戏剧爱好者或英语学习者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.阿瑟·米勒代表作，被誉为“战后美国伟大的剧作”，戏剧爱好者必读；
2. 戏剧结构简单并使用意识流的手法，主题表达深刻、完整；
3. 企鹅经典系列，本版本为100周年纪念版，内容无删减并附录多张剧照。
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.”
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Death of a Salesman《推销员之死》描写的主人公是有三十余年推销经历的威利，一直被美国商业文化虚幻的光晕所笼罩，盲目估计自己的能力，幻想通过商品推销得到名望以及并不现实的美好前景，以至他常处于吹嘘、夸耀、谎言连篇的心态，直到临死都以为一定能达到功成名就，而对自身毁灭的原因却浑然不知。该书刻画了一个小人物悲剧性的一生，揭露了美国富有神话的欺骗性。
“A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away”
Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence, and A scathing indictment of the ultimate failure of the American dream, and the empty pursuit of wealth and success, is a harrowing journey.

阿瑟·米勒（1915—2005），美国杰出的戏剧家，被誉为“美国戏剧的良心”。其出生于美国纽约一个犹太商人家庭，做过技工，卡车司机，侍者。1983年毕业于密歌根大学。1947年，成名作《我的儿子们》上演，两年后《推销员之死》为其赢得国际声誉。其他作品有《萨勒姆的女巫》、《两个星期一的回忆》，《桥头眺望》和《美国时钟》，以及回忆录《时移世变》等。米勒曾两次纽约戏剧批评家奖，1949获普利策奖，于2005年逝世。
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include AllMy Sons(1947), DeathOfa Salesman(1949),The Crucible(1953),A View from the Bridge and A Memory of two Mondays(1955),Afterthe Fall(1963),Incident at Vichy(1964),The Price(1968),The Creation of the World and Other Business(1972) andThe American Clock(1980). He twice won theNew York Drama Critics Circle Awards, and in 1949 he was awarded thePulitzer Prize.Arthur Miller died in 2005.

ACT ONE
A melody is heard, played upon a flute. It is small and fine, telling of grass and trees and the horizon. The curtain rises.
Before us is the SALESMAN’s house. We are aware of towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides. Only the blue light of the sky falls upon the house and forestage; the surrounding area shows an angry glow of orange. As more light appears we see a solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home. An air of the dream clings to the place, a dream rising out of reality. The kitchen at center seems actual enough, for there is a kitchen table with three chairs, and a refrigerator. But no other fixtures are seen. At the back of the kitchen there is a draped entrance, which leads to the living-room. To the right of the kitchen, on a level raised two feet, is a bedroom furnished only with a brass bedstead and a straight chair. On a shelf over the bed a silver athletic trophy stands. A window opens on to the apartment house at the side.