The Crucible

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: Reprint

Description: 126 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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