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The Witches: Salem, 1692

By Stacy Schiff
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The doings of the "witches" of Salem, Massachusetts and the panic-driven hysteria of their persecutors, is an American mystery story that has captivated us, possibly since the 1690s, and has produced a motherlode of great books. In that company, Stacy Schiff's The Witches is especially fascinating for bringing together extensively researched detail, immersive imagery, a tactile sense of time and place and a contemporary eye, noting unexpected aspects of gender and class. These are the witches as you have not seen them before.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.

It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.

The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, pare...

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