A major problem with The Crucible is that most of the reviews are older and no one’s bothered to copy them on the web. That’s another reason your library’s going to be a good source for this. They’ll probably have a printed index of older book reviews, like Book Review Digest or Book Review Index. Still, if they have a good online tool that you can sign into, it might be easier than using the printed ones.

In fact, this link tells you where to find critiques of The Crucible in a number of print reference books produced by Gale, a major reference publisher. The reviews themselves will either be full articles or excerpts of articles from journals and magazines, usually written at about the time the original work was published. Your librarian can tell you exactly which reference book your library owns:

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex/hits?r=d&origSearch=true&ttlRad=to&o=DocTitle&n=10&l=12&c=4&secondary=false&u=LitIndex&t=KW&s=2&TI=crucible

That said, if you absolutely need something free and online, you might find this useful:

http://www.novelguide.com/thecrucible/index.html

Need to locate your library’s site? Check:

http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/Public_main.html

Hope this is helpful!

–Bill Pardue

Arlington Heights Memorial Library, http://www.ahml.info

Librarians: Ask Us, We Answer!

http://www.hindu.com/lr/ /03/06/stories/2005030 600130200.htm

If you scroll down, you will see where Amazon’s reviewers have provided several lengthy reviews: (need to remove all spaces from this link)

http://www.amazon.com/ Crucible-Penguin-Classics- Arthur-Miller/dp/ 0142437336

Best wishes to you!