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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 the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
“The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet
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...
“The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet
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...
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