The life and times of Mark Twain
- 144pages
- 6 heures de lecture
A big illustrated book mostly in color of Mark Twain and his times.
3,0
Dennis Welland Livres
Cet auteur se concentre sur la critique littéraire, examinant les œuvres d'écrivains américains avec un profond intérêt pour leurs contextes culturels et historiques. Ses recherches se caractérisent par une étude méticuleuse et un engagement à relier l'expression artistique aux courants sociétaux plus larges. Par le biais de publications académiques, il a contribué de manière significative à façonner le domaine des études américaines. Son approche offre aux lecteurs des perspectives éclairées sur la littérature américaine.
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft-and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. (back cover)
3,6
