The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780141182551
FORMAT: Paperback 20cm x 13cm
PAGES: 126
CONDITION: Good: shelf and reading wear.
EDITION: c1952 1953, 27th reprint 2000
WEIGHT: 160g (letter rate)
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 McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950's.
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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.
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