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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play's iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.

Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success.

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 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 (1964), Incident at Vichy (1965), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), and The American Clock (1980). He has also written two novels, Focus (1945) and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs

Shane’s a damned good salesman, but when a promotion that he spent years earning gets taken away only hours after getting it, he realizes that sometimes it doesn’t matter how good you are at what you do. But that’s not good enough for Shane. Confronting the person that he believes is responsible for his situation, Shane learns that there’s another, quieter, sales organization that he’s competing against: Perdition Investments. At Perdition Investments the products are whatever you want the most, but the cost is your Soul. Shane has a chance to use his excellent skills in an entirely new way, but at what cost? Can you lose your soul by trading people for theirs? What’s the price for success?

Often described as the most elite and important in all of Victorian London, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club was a place where the like-minded shared their wisdom, secrets and methods. Follow Barnabas Kreuz and his nephew Simeon, a young man who quickly discovers how 7 secret rules can become the foundation to unlimited success and a considerable fortune.

A strong sense of loyalty courses through the lifeblood of the Torrente family, and as a member, Mateo is duty-bound to move to America to assist his favorite cousin, Gabriele, when threats are made against the family. Mateo possesses a skillset that is required to protect Gabriele’s children and to assist in identifying a traitor in their midst.

WITH THE ECONOMY TURNED upside down, lack of work forced Billy McCoy to consider employment options he normally wouldn't. With his wife Dana, they uprooted the family and made a move north for a new business extensive opportunity requiring product marketing and direct contact with customers. The decision proved far more difficult than expected. As the months passed, with an income based solely on sales performance, Billy and Dana watched their savings account dwindle to nothing. Anxiety and fear capitalized their thoughts. Billy's success in this new career seemed dismal.

Presenting the First Episode of Drama Simplified Season-1. Play- Death of a salesman (EP 1/20) Playwright- Arthur Miller Simplified By- Shilpi Arora Language- English Venue Partner- The White Crow (BKC) Supported by- Rudra Studio About the play- Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece about Willy Loman, the ageing travelling salesman haunted and driven by empty dreams of prosperity and success. Charting Willy's downfall and tragic end, the play has been justly celebrated as one of the most famous dramatisations of the dark side of the so-called American Dream. Its moral and ...

In The Bible Salesman, Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what's up, he finds himself in way over his head with no apparent way out.

The characters from the classic Prepper Trilogy have moved from their survival retreat on the lake and have taken up city living in one of the FEMA reconstruction towns. The government is attempting to jump start the economy once more after a solar storm took down the grid and the economy 10 long years ago. Politics and a religious cult leader who is a decedent of a Kudzu salesman threaten to upset the survivor's plans to restart their lives as the stresses of rejoining civilization mount.

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Audio version of the best selling novella; about the joys and sorrows, the ups and the downs of selling anything.

As a young man embarks on a career, his journey is interrupted and guided by a mysterious homeless man whose perception and insight border on the surreal. Take an unexpected tour with Jim Fariss as he expands his mind, his career, and his beliefs with the most unlikely of mentors. The Unexpected Tour Guide is more than a story. It will take you on a personal journey of significance, awareness, and faith.

James Mason is a rogue, some would say a lovable rogue. He is a salesman of items that any guesthouse on the south coast of England can’t manage without, and he spends his weeks travelling along from one city to another, encouraging landladies to purchase his products. In the evenings, he stays with one of his customers and very often ends up spanking them or their 18-year-old daughters.

My older landlord Mr. Davenport can sell ice to an Inuit, but he’s having trouble selling bidets to American households! I tell him I’ll listen to his sales pitch and help him out, but a claim of his has got me intrigued. It’s so naughty! I’m wowed by the power of the bidet and even more impressed when Mr. Davenport makes good on his naughty promise of stuffing it in my tight, clean ass!

Dave is alone for the week, while his wife goes out of town on business. Amusing himself with a porn video, he is in the middle of things when the doorbell rings. He opens it to find a studly salesman selling sex toys. He has never considered himself anything but heterosexual, but all that is about to change. Warning: For adults only. Contains raw bareback sex between men, anal and oral.

In Door to Door Sex, we are introduced to ex-soldier Jeff. Just out of his training course, he hits the streets to discover life is just peachy in civvy street. On his very first day, Jeff is seduced by an older but very sexy lady who learns to submit to his strong and masterful touch.

The second in the Salesman Sex series sees ex-soldier Jeff still in his first month as a renewable energy salesman and having the time of his life. His sales were well over target and he was earning about three times his old military salary. But that wasn't even the best of it. He had a job which took him to see horny housewives and MILFs every day and there was something about being a salesman which seemed to make their panties fall off as soon as he got inside their homes.