The Crucible

A Play in four Acts

von Arthur Miller

126 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780141182551
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2000
• Größe: 194 x 124 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)