{"product_id":"the-crucible-a-play-in-four-acts","title":"The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eArthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a\nchilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest\nand most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist\npurges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small\ncommunity of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and\nmalice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of\nmindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, \u003ci\u003eThe\nCrucible \u003c\/i\u003eis also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the\n'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAmerican dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City\nin 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy \u003ci\u003eThe Grass Still Grows\u003c\/i\u003e.\nHis major achievement was \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Salesman\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1949\nPulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle\nAward. \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e was aimed at the widespread congressional\ninvestigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony\nAward. Miller's autobiography, \u003ci\u003eTimebends: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e was published\nin 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44832680214735,"sku":"9780141182551","price":22.89,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_5036b284-e9b4-4a5c-886c-65a1fa162330.jpg?v=1779825526","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/the-crucible-a-play-in-four-acts","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}