The Twelfth Juror

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As the jury deliberates the case against TV personality Edward Carne, on trial for his wife's murder, the accused man's fate lies with the twelfth juror, Robert Quinn, who has a deeply emotional interest in the outcome

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Excerpt from The Twelfth Juror The stillness that, soon after the setting of the sun and the rising of the mist, drops like a all over the small Kentuck moun tain vil ages was abruptly rent by t e sharp peal of a bell hangin in the courthouse tower. Its summons, t ough unprecedented at so late an hour, was obviously not unlooked for, as lights at once began to gleam in the windows of many of the humble dwellings that cluster around the junction of the two forks of the Kentuck river. There was the clash and slam of ouse-doors hurriedly opened and closed, the tread of feet hasten ing towards one point, and the shrill shriek of the old iron gate that bars the entrance to the county square, as, pushed back upon its rusty hinges, it gave admittance to the excited men who impatiently ressed beyond it. This rare nocturnal distur ance was suc ceeded by a brief period of silence, and then, once more, the heavy tram of feet accompanied now by a clamor ofp masculine voices keyed high by excitement - rose and was echoed by the neighboring cliffs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. It looks like an open-and-shut case until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts."--Page 4 of cover