The Witches: Salem, 1692
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2015. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 498 pp. with bibliography, index. From the Pulitzer Prize-einning author of "Cleopatra", a riviting account of a seminal episode in American history and a primal mystery unveiled. In the early winter of 1692, a minister's niece began to writhe and roar due to unkown causes. Word of the incident quickly spread, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Soon, neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and one man crushed to death. Schiff draws masterfully on archives to present a picture of the strains of Puritan life on an adolescent girl whose fits and convulsions first triggered the events as well as on the Massachusetts Bay authorities whose delicate agengas were at risk. Fine / fine. Item #E26683x
ISBN: 9780316200608
Price: $20.00