The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts.
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Arthur Miller
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Series
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- February 24, 2000
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-118255-1
- GTIN
- 9780141182551
- Weight, g
- 112
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 — 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' — and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.
A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.