The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Modern Classics)

As poignant now as it was when first written - a lesson to always keep in mind about the impact of listening blindly to others.

You find yourself frustrated, devastated and drawn in. A brilliant play and one of my personal favourites.

As described and the book arrived nice and early.

The actual novel / book is great. I love the plot although at some points I feel it went quite slow and causing it not to be interesting any longer. The condition was great and make sure you order with one day delivery if you don't want it to turn up 2 months later. If you are a student I would recommend buying another copy of this book, either the student edition ( you would find this on the menu when your write it in the Amazon search tab and it should appear as a scarecrow being hanged on the front cover, it will say student edition in brackets next to the image) or you could by the hardback which has the image of a woman with a green light on top of her head. Bothe these have notes and questions for students to answer for a better understanding of the play and a better understanding of social/ historical context- in English gcse it is known as AO4. I also recommend you buy the York notes of the crucible with the hardcover just mentioned above. The York notes works only with the hard cover in terms of references to the actual book in terms of page numbers e.g on the York notes it will give a quote and say page 5, and that quote will be on the hardcover on page 5 but could be on a different page on other editions of the book. The York notes will help a lot. For anyone who loves reading try "as I lay dying" by William Faulkner. It is quite difficult but have a go.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Bought for a school project and helped a lot

Really annoyed to have paid more than a fiver, full price, for the Penguin Kindle edition, only to find one of the first lines of stage direction reads "Reverend Parris is praying now, and, though we cannot bear his words" ... Later, someone is a "down the ball a few steps". The issue affects text in italics - i.e., stage direction - and affects some, though not all words starting with a 'h'. Later in the book, Abigail Williams has "bushed trepidation"! Lazy and careless production completely ruins this edition of Miller's work. It's especially troublesome if you / your child expects to quote from this in their studies. Awful!

Great drama and a fierce critique of Eighteenth Century Christianity and it’s unreasoning cruelties. Were this fiction it would be a dreadful story: that it’s based on true events is all the more so. Sadly it has echoes in the culture wars of this present generation.