The witches : Salem, 1692 / Stacy Schiff.
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. 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.
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- ISBN: 9780316387743
- ISBN: 0316387746
- Physical Description: xxi, 789 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map on endpages ; 25 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographic references and notes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Witchcraft > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century. Women > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century. Trials (Witchcraft) > Massachusetts > Salem > 17th century. Salem (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. |
Genre: | Large print books. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | LT 133.43 S333w 2015 (Text) | 33126020417758 | Large Print Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/15/2024 |
Independence Branch | LT 133.43 S333w 2015 (Text) | 33126020417733 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |