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02435aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 953A6300A94611E598245BCDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151223012709 008 150629s2015 nyuabf db 000 0 eng d 010 $a bl2015042265 020 $a 0316387746 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780316387743 (hardcover) 040 $a VVW $c VVW $e rda $d VVW $d OCLCO $d BDX $d NOG $d PCX $d ZHI $d SKYRV $d SILO 050 14 $a KFM2478.8.W5 $b S35 2015d 082 04 $a 345.74450288 $2 23 100 1 $a Schiff, Stacy, $e author. 245 14 $a The witches $h [large print] : $b Salem, 1692 / $c Stacy Schiff. 246 30 $a Salem, 1692 250 $a Large print edition, First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Little, Brown and Company, $c c2015. 300 $a xxi, 789 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, map on endpapers ; $c 25 cm. 340 $n large print. $2 rda 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Trials (Witchcraft) $z Salem $z Salem $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Witchcraft $z Salem $z Salem $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a Salem (Mass.) $x History $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 650 0 $a Large type books. 941 $a 8 945 $a lpt 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111010544.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728012321.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006093852.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20160624010224.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20160210011617.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20160209020536.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20160120013235.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151223020410.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=953A6300A94611E598245BCDDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search