# The Crucible

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- Authors: [Arthur Miller](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-10-06

## 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 McCarthyism which gripped America 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.

## Editions

### The Crucible

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-947-9
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2016-10-18
- Language: en_US

### The Crucible

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-255-1
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2015-09-10
- Language: en_GB

### The Crucible

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-419-1
- Published: 2011-10-06
- Language: en_GB

### The Crucible

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4243-733-9
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2003-03-25
- Language: en_US

### The Crucible

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4024-772-5
- Pages: 512
- Published: 1996-01-01
- Language: en_US