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.
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- ISBN
9780141182551
- Published
- February 24th 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 128
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129
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