The Witches by Stacy Schiff

The Witches

Stacy Schiff

512 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. T...

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informative 95%
dark 47%
challenging 42%
reflective 30%
sad 15%
emotional 7%
mysterious 6%
tense 5%
inspiring 1%

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medium 16%

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