Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-1999

by Arthur Miller

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670893145
• ISBN13: 9780670893140
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

history coming alive

I read his first essay about Brooklyn on the NYT books site and had to buy the book. Miller captures the past while avoiding nostalgia and bitterness towards the present, a very hard trick to master. The Depression really comes alive in his books, as does the immediacy of the Communist witch hunt. For someone in her 20s, it's hard to imagine how visceral the fear must have been, but Miller describes the uneasiness in not knowing whether the world was becoming socialist, fascist, communist or holding on to democracy. His writing was also beautiful - perfectly constructed sentences.