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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – 24 Feb. 2000
Arthur Miller (Author) See search results for this author |
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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.
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date24 Feb. 2000
- Dimensions12.9 x 1 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-109780141182551
- ISBN-13978-0141182551
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- ASIN : 0141182555
- Publisher : Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (24 Feb. 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780141182551
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141182551
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 1 x 19.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 2,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 2 in Drama & Dramatists
- 20 in Drama (Books)
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. During his lifetime he was celebrated as the pre-eminent playwright of his generation and won numerous awards for his work including two New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. His 1949 play Death of a Salesman was the first play to scoop all three major US awards: the New York Critics Circle Award, a Tony Award for Best Author and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His many plays include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The Creation of the World and Other Business, and The American Clock; later plays include Broken Glass, Resurrection Blues and the aptly-titled Finishing the Picture. His other published work includes the novel Focus, The Misfits which was filmed in 1960, two collections of short stories, the memoir Timebends and various volumes of non-fiction including three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath.
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By Mrs N. on 17 September 2020




You will never unthinkingly accept authority, or take allegations at face value, again.
Just had a bit of nostalgia for it, as I enjoyed it at school, and I enjoyed reading it again.