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EAN13
9780141182551
Éditeur
Penguin
Date de publication
1 septembre 2000
Collection
drop caps
Nombre de pages
126
Dimensions
19,8 x 12,9 x 1 cm
Poids
112 g

The Crucible, The : A Play In Four Acts

Miller, Arthur

Penguin

Prix public : 14,80 €

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.
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