Death of a Salesman (1949)  Tags: death salesman arthur miller  

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• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Writers [vol 3]
• American Writers since 1900
• Contemporary Authors [vol 1-4R, 2, 30, 54]
• Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series [vol 76]
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  • [vols 1, 2, 6, 10, 15, 47, 78, 179] - look for Death of a Salesman in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
• Critical Survey of Drama [vol 5, 7]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 2]
• Drama Criticism [vol 1]
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• Dramatists and Drama
  
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• Literature and Its Times [4]
• Major Modern Dramatists [vol 1]
  
• Masterplots [vol 3]
• McGraw Encyclopedia of World Drama [vols 3]
• Modern American Literature [vol 2, 4, 5, 6]
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
• Student Companion to Arthur Milller
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals;
  • [vol 26] - locate the topical essay "The Businessman in American Literature"
  • [vol 62] - locate the topical essay "Jewish-American Fiction"
  • [vol 210] - locate the topical essay "The American Dream in Literature"
• Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
  

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