基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：128 页
出版日期：2000年02月
ISBN：0141182555
条形码：9780141182551
版本：New Ed
装帧：平装
丛书名：Penguin Modern Classics
外文书名：熔炉(企鹅现代经典系列)
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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.
作者简介 Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include <B>All My Sons</B> (1947), <B>Death of a Salesman</B> (1949), <B>The Crucible</B> (1953), <B>A View from the Bridge</B> and <B>A Memory of Two Mondays</B> (1955), <B>After the Fall</B> (1963), <B>Incident at Vichy</B> (1964), <B>The Price</B> (1968), <B>The Creation of the World and Other Business</B> (1972) and <B>The American Clock</B>. He has also written two novels, <B>Focus</B> (1945), and <B>The Misfits</B>, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for <B>In Russia</B> (1969), <B>Chinese Encounters</B> (1979), and <B>In the Country</B> (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His most recent works include a memoir, <B>Timebends</B> (1987), and the plays <B>The Ride Down Mt. Morgan</B> (1991), <B>The Last Yankee</B> (1993), <B>Broken Glass</B> (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and <B>Mr. Peter's Connections</B> (1998). He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.