As a writer of play I share with all specialists a suspicion of generalities about the are and technique of my crafts, and I lack both the scholarly patience and the zeal to define term in such a way as to satisfy everyone.

Arthur Miller's place in the very forefront of American playwrights is already secure. Though he has known enormous success, he has never compromised his art nor has he pilfered his own talent by repeating the pattern of any of his plays; always his work has shown change and growth. Now, for the first time, his complete dramatic works to date have been gathered into one volume - a volume that offers wonderfully various fare. Mr. Miller has written a long introduction to the book in which he delineates the genesis of each of the plays explaining the why of the conception and execution in every instance. Then follow the complete texts of the plays themselves - All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, and A View from the Bridge. The last named drama, originally a one-acter, appears here in the enlarged two-act form that Mr. Miller prepared for the London production, and that has not been published anywhere before.