Books by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller & Tim Lott
We are taken into a world where brothers project their fantasies onto one another – a course that can only end badly
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller's extraordinary 1953 stageplay re-presents or reimagines the events of Salem in 1692 in the context of the McCarthy-era anti-communist campaign in the United States. More than forty years later, Miller explained in The New Yorker that writing The Crucible had been "an act of desperation... The more I read into the Salem panic, the more it touched off corresponding images of common experiences in the fifties: the old friend of a blacklisted person crossing the street to avoid being seen talking to him; the overnight conversions of former leftists into born-again patriots; and so on. Apparently, certain processes are universal." It is now regarded as a great classic of American playwriting.
Interviews where books by Arthur Miller were recommended
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
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Witchcraft at Salem
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The Crucible
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
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Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
ed. Bernard Rosenthal
Books About the Salem Witch Trials
Books About the Salem Witch Trials
In 1692-3 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, a widespread moral panic resulted in nearly 200 residents being accused of practicing witchcraft. In the end, 20 of them were executed. Since then, the name Salem has been associated with paranoia, betrayal and religious extremism, and the Salem Witch Trials have served as the inspiration for many books, both fiction and nonfiction.
The best books on Freedom of Speech, recommended by Claire Fox
Modern society has interpreted John Stuart Mill’s concept of tolerance to mean that we should avoid giving offence. The director of the Institute of Ideas tells us about books that show how far we’ve departed from what was meant
The best books on Brothers, recommended by Tim Lott
Novelist Tim Lott, whose autobiographical book Under the Same Stars lays bare a dysfunctional relationship with his brother, tells us about love and rivalry among siblings – and, from Cain and Abel on, the dark, even murderous, impulses that can be engendered between them.
