Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000 - Brossura

Miller, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 0142000051 ISBN 13: 9780142000052

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2001

Riassunto

Essays by the great American playwright and intellectual cover the trial of Ezra Pound, McCarthyism, Vietnam, Watergate, and Monica Lewinsky, among other weighty issues. Reprint.

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Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays includeAll My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953),A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963),Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) andThe American Clock. He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), andThe Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969),Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. More recent works include a memoir,Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, andMr. Peter's Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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For some fifty years now, Arthur Miller has been not only America's premier playwright, but also one of our foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. Echoes Down the Corridor gathers together a dazzling array of more than forty previously uncollected essays and works of reportage. Here is Arthur Miller, the brilliant social and political commentator-but here, too, Miller the private man behind the internationally renowned public figure.Witty and wise, rich in artistry and insight, Echoes Down the Corridor reaffirms Arthur Miller's standing as one of the greatest writers of our time.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0142000051
• ISBN 13: 9780142000052
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Centola Steven R.