The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

512 pages | first published 2015

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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. I...
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