The witches : Salem, 1692
(2015)
By:
Schiff, Stacy
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
345.744502/SCHIFF,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316200608, 0316200603
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Cast of characters -- The diseases of astonishment -- That old deluder -- The working of wonders -- One of you is a devil -- The wizard -- A suburb of hell -- Now they say there is above seven hundred in all -- In these hellish meetings -- Our case is extraordinary -- Published to prevent false reports -- That dark and mysterious season -- A long train of miserable consequences
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible