The Crucible

A Play in Four Acts

Arthur Miller author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

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The Crucible cover

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.

ISBN: 9780141182551

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 9mm

Weight: 114g

144 pages