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Author:

Schiff, Stacy, author.

Title:

The witches [large print] : Salem, 1692 / Stacy Schiff.

Format:

[large print] :

Edition:

Large print edition, First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

c2015

Description:

xxi, 789 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, map on endpapers ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Trials (Witchcraft)--Salem--Salem--17th century.
Witchcraft--Salem--Salem--History--17th century.
Salem (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Large type books.

Contents:

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.

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. 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.

ISBN:

0316387746 (hardcover)
9780316387743 (hardcover)

LCCN:

bl2015042265

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)