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The Witches: Salem, 1692 Hardcover - 2015

by Stacy Schiff


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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. 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. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

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  • Title The Witches: Salem, 1692
  • Author Stacy Schiff
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2015-10-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780316200608 / 0316200603
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.5 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Trials (Witchcraft)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015939026
  • Dewey Decimal Code 345.744

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2015, Page 31
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2016, Page 7
  • Christianity Today, 10/01/2015, Page 74
  • Entertainment Weekly, 10/30/2015, Page 66
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/15/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 05/15/2015, Page 55
  • New York Times Book Review, 12/03/2015, Page 21
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/07/2015, Page 58

About the author

Stacy Schiff is the author of Vra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupry, 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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