title: The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
author:  Arthur Miller 
description: &ldquo;Here we find the true compassion and catharsis that are as essential to our society as water and fire and babies and air. I remember walking and running and jumping out of the theater after seeing&#160;<i>Death of a Salesman</i>, like a child in the morning, because Miller awakened in me the taste for all that must be&mdash;the empathy and love for the least of us, out of which bursts a gratitude for the poetry of these characters and the greatness of their creator.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;Philip Seymour Hoffman<br>&#160;</b><br>&ldquo;His plays and his conscience are a cold burning force.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;Edward Albee</b><br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;You can usually tell if a writers loves actors or not by the parts he gives you. He gives you tap dances. He gives you arias.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;Dustin Hoffman</b><br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;[<i>Death of a Salesman</i>] was our story that we did not know until we heard it.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;David Mamet</b><br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;Arthur Miller is a playwright for all seasons and all nations.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;Christopher Bigsby<br></b><br>"The greatest playwright of the 20th Century."<br><b>&mdash;Vaclav Havel</b><br><br>"Writing meant, for him, an effort to locate in the human species a counterforce to the randomness of victimisation."<br><b>&mdash;Salman Rushdie</b><br><br>"He was so honest and a man of rare integrity in his writing."<br><b>&mdash;Harold Pinter</b><br><br>"Arthur was the last of the three great theatrical voices of the American century - O'Neill, Williams, Miller."<br><b>&mdash;David Hare</b><br><br>"[Miller] has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre."<br><b>&mdash;Brooks Atkinson</b>
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  PENGUIN CLASSICS ![](../image/penguin.jpg) DELUXE EDITION
  
  
  PRESENCE: COLLECTED STORIES
  
  
  ARTHUR MILLER (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the
  University of Michigan. His plays include _All 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_ and _Incident at Vichy_
  (1964), _The Price_ (1968), _The Creation of the World and Other Business_
  (1972), and _The American Clock_ (1980). His other works include _Focus_ , a
  novel (1945); _The Misfits_ , a cinema novel (1961); and the texts for _In
  Russia_ (1969), _In the Country_ (1977), and _Chinese Encounters_ (1979),
  three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. His
  memoirs include _Salesman in Beijing_ (1984) and _Timebends_ , an
  autobiography (1987). His short fiction includes the collection _I Don’t Need
  You Any More_ (1967), the novella _Homely Girl, A Life_ (1995), and _Presence: