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The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

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  Okay, so all sorts of historical details are altered for the sake of character drama, but so what? It does not change the fact that this is one heck of a great play that offers it all: romance, betrayal, psychology, murder, and more, all set in a sleepy little Puritan town obsessed with witches that has become the victim of the "games" of a few young girls.
  While I would hardly recommend it to someone going for deep facts of the Salem Witch Trials, this still draws on historical characters and does an... more info

• Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club.com
  The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a great book to read with a mother-daughter book club. It provides an outlet to talk about issues the girls are covering in school, and to find out about how their perspectives differ from those of their moms. The issues of witchcraft and socially sanctioned violence against a targeted group seem eerily relevant to some of the things going on in our world today. This book challenged all of us to think about the most important things in our lives and what we're willing to... more info

• Prompt service
  Daughter needed it for a project for an accelerated class. It came in time and she was able to complete her assignments with a new book.

• The Devil is Precise
  On my walk through the LoA edition of Arthur Miller plays I bypass The Enemy of the People, the Ibsen adaptation, which I think is a waste of everyone's time, and go straight to the Crucible, which I had never read, nor watched on stage or screen. Very odd. It is a truly gripping piece of modern classic stage writing.
  Of course AM needed to educate us always, so this story is not just a story about the witch trials of Salem, when perfectly harmless people, including some citizens of standing in the... more info

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