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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts: Penguin Modern Classics

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts: Penguin Modern Classics

Miller, Arthur

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ISBN10: 0141182555
ISBN13: 9780141182551
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Feb 24 2000
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

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.

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