The Crucible
 | Penguin ClassicsBy Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigsby Penguin Classics, 2003, Paperback Customer Rating: 48 reviews Recommend |
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Product Description
Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism.
Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
Product Details
Title: The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
Sales Rank: 7188 in Books
Author: Arthur Miller
Creator: Christopher Bigsby
Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003-03-25, Paperback, 176 pages, ISBN: 0142437336
Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches, 0.3 pounds
Customer Reviews
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- Okay, so all sorts of historical details are altered for the sake of character drama, but so what? It does not change the fact that this is one heck of a great play that offers it all: romance, betrayal, psychology, murder, and more, all set in a sleepy little Puritan town obsessed with witches that has become the victim of the "games"… More reviews
- Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club.com
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a great book to read with a mother-daughter book club. It provides an outlet to talk about issues the girls are covering in school, and to find out about how their perspectives differ from those of their moms. The issues of witchcraft and socially sanctioned violence against a targeted group seem eerily relevant to some of the things going… More reviews
- Prompt service
- Daughter needed it for a project for an accelerated class. It came in time and she was able to complete her assignments with a new book.… More reviews
- The Devil is Precise
- On my walk through the LoA edition of Arthur Miller plays I bypass The Enemy of the People, the Ibsen adaptation, which I think is a waste of everyone's time, and go straight to the Crucible, which I had never read, nor watched on stage or screen. Very odd. It is a truly gripping piece of modern classic stage writing.
Of course AM needed to educate us always, so this story… More reviews
- moving and thought-provoking
- I really enjoyed reading this classic tale. I found it interesting from an historical and literary point of view. It forces you to think about very real moral dilemmas, like what you might or might not give your life for. More reviews
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