The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts (9780141182551)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 144 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 8mm | 112g
• Publication date 24 Feb 2000
• Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint PENGUIN CLASSICS
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Repr.
• ISBN10 0141182555
• ISBN13 9780141182551
• Bestsellers rank 547

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