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The Crucible
by MILLER, Arthur (1915-2005)
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About This Item
London: Penguin, 1996. [Drama] FILM TIE-IN EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. XXVII; [1], blank; [3]; 32; [6], photographs of 'The Crucible' being performed; 33-96. Black publisher's cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dustwrapper picturing Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. Very slight bumping to spine, 1.5cm tear to dustwrapper front flap. Near fine. The 1953 play, 'The Crucible', written by American playwright Arthur Miller, dramatises the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony. This much loved play was then adapted for the silver screen in 1966 staring Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis. This book once belonged to Professor William St Clair who was a British historian and senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies.
Synopsis
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock . He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits , which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter's Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting . Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Christopher Bigsby is professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He edited the Penguin Classics editions of Miller's The Crucible , Death of a Salesman , and All My Sons .
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- Title
- The Crucible
- Author
- MILLER, Arthur (1915-2005)
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- Used
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- Publisher
- London: Penguin, 1996
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About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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