5 Top american books like Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

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Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t…

"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

If you liked the american plot in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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2. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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3. A Man's World: A Play In Four Acts

By: Rachel Crothers

3.82

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more

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Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

6. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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7. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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9. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Cover of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

10. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

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"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

11. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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12. Of Mice and Men

By: John Steinbeck

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more

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13. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

14. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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15. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

16. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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17. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

18. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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19. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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20. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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21. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"And nothing is, but what is not."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

13 Best fiction books like Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

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14 must-read fiction books like The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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