Stacy Schiff: The witches (2015)
789 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2015
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.
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.
Pulls it out in the last hour and a half with actual analysis, because the entire rest of the book I was just going, "Whyyyyyyyy?"
Pulls it out in the last hour and a half with actual analysis, because the entire rest of the book I was just going, "Whyyyyyyyy?"
