PublishedPenguin Modern Classics, June 2000 |
ISBN9780141182551 |
FormatSoftcover, 144 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 13cm × 0.9cm |
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.
