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The witches : Salem, 1692  Cover Image Book Book

The witches : Salem, 1692 / Stacy Schiff.

Schiff, Stacy. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316200608
  • ISBN: 0316200603
  • Physical Description: xiv, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographic references and index.
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.
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.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Massachusetts > Salem.
Genre: History.

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Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and The Witches: Salem, 1692.

Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government, she lives in New York City.


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