# The Crucible

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- Book: [The Crucible](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller/the-crucible) ([The Crucible.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller/the-crucible.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Miller](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-255-1
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2015-09-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.