The Witches: Salem, 1692 - A History
Author(s): Stacy Schiff
Religion, Mythology & Folklore
'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ...Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before panic had infected the entire colony, nineteen men and women had been hanged, and a band of adolescent girls had brought Massachusetts to its knees.
Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time. She shows us how quickly the epidemic of accusations, trials, and executions span out of control.
Above all, Schiff's astonishing research reveals details and complexity that few other historians have seen.
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Stacy Schiff is one of America's most acclaimed and popular historians. She is the author of VERA (MRS VLADIMIR NABOKOV), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; SAINT-EXUPERY, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A GREAT IMPROVISATION: FRANKLIN, FRANCE, AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICA, winner of the George Washington Book Prize; and CLEOPATRA: A LIFE. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Named a 2011 Library Lion by the New York Public Library, she lives in New York City. www.stacyschiff.com @stacyschiff facebook.com/stacyschiff
General Fields
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- : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- : 0.402
- : 01 July 2016
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Stacy Schiff
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : en
- : 512
- : 2 x 8pp colour plates
