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- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2000
Summary
The Crucible: A Parable of Mass Hysteria
Arthur Miller’s classic parable draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - ‘one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history’ - and the McCarthyism which gripped America 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 pow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141182551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141182555 |
| Author: | Arthur Miller |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Arthur Miller
American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller’s autobiography, Timebends- A Life was published in 1987.
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