CRUCIBLE (PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS SERIES)

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.