Miller - Death of a Salesman: Find Books

• His first Broadway play, The Man Who Had All the Luck closes after only four performances in 1944
• Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman in 1949 at the age of just 33
• He appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956. He was held in comtempt for refusing to name names. The trials inspired another well-known work, The Crucible
  
• Miller was married 3 times. His second marriage was to Marilyn Monroe in 1956. The marriage lasted 4 years
  
• Timebends, his autobiography, was published in 1987
• Arthur Miller died February 10, 2005 at the age of 89
  

• First produced in 1949
• Miller wrote the play in six weeks
• It was the first play to win the Tony, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize
• At the time, some saw the play as having an Anti-Capitalist message
• Lee L Cobb was the first Willy Loman. He has also been played by: Dustin Hoffman, Brian Dennehy, George C Scott, Avery Brooks
• The play has been performed all over the world, including a Chinese translation in 1983

Ever wonder how books are shelved?

In this library we use The Library of Congress Classification System to organize books on the shelves. The LC SYSTEM organizes material in libraries according to twenty-one branches of knowledge called classes. The system uses letters to represent the twenty-one broad branches of knowledge. The letters I, O, W, X AND Y are not used.

 The twenty-one classes are:

A – GENERAL WORKS

B – PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION

C – AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY

D – HISTORY: GENERAL & OUTSIDE THE AMERICAS

E – HISTORY: UNITED STATES

F – HISTORY: UNITED STATES LOCAL & AMERICAS

G – GEOGRAPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RECREATION

H – SOCIAL SCIENCE

J – POLITICAL SCIENCE

K – LAW

L – EDUCATION

M – MUSIC & BOOKS ON MUSIC

N – FINE ARTS

P – LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Q – SCIENCE

R – MEDICINE

S – AGRICULTURE

T – TECHNOLOGY

U – MILITARY SCIENCE

V – NAVAL SCIENCE

Z – BIBLIOGRAPHY, LIBRARY SCIENCE & INFORMATION RESOURCES

These twenty-one broad subject areas are further divided into more specific subject areas by adding one or two additional letters as well as some numbers. For a more detailed breakdown of any subject, go to the Library of Congress web page. 

So, How Do I Find a Book on the Shelf?

Try this exercise, which was put together by the librarians at Kent State University, to see if you have figured out the Library of Congress system!

Finding Books on Your Topic 

Use the Library Catalog to find books available in the Cerritos College Library. You can search for books by author, title, subject, or keyword. 

You can use some of the subject headings below to help you find literary criticism on the work you're reading and its themes.

• Arthur Miller - Criticism and Interpretation
• Arthur Miller, 1915-2005. Death of a Salesman
• American Literature - History and Criticism
• Suicide in Literature

HINT: To find books written about an author search by Subject, to find a book written by an author search by Author. Always type the last name first, e.g. Hemingway, Ernest.

Here are some of the library's online resources which can help you get biographical and critical information. Most online resources require login for off-campus use.  Enter your Cerritos College login when prompted.  For more login information see the Database Login page.

You should search for these sources by entering either the name of the author or the name of the work.

Below are some books that are located in the library. In these books you will find biographical and historical information on the AUTHOR.

Books with a shelf location REF or REFERENCE cannot be checked out, but students are able to photocopy pages.

Below are some books in the library in which you will find plot overviews, character studies, and critical information on the author's WORK.

Books with a shelf location REF or REFERENCE cannot be checked out but students are able to photocopy pages.