Moreover, she has mastered the entire history of early New England-from long before to well after the year of the witch-hunt. "Her research is impeccable no previous writer has scoured the documentary record to such great depth. it is wizardry of a sort-in a flash of brimstone, a whole world made wondrously visible." The Atlantic Thanks to this, and to Schiff's narrative gifts, the present-day reader flits above New England's smoky chimneys and thatched rooftops.
"Schiff brings to bear a sensibility as different from the Puritans' as can be imagined: gentle, ironic, broadly empathetic, with a keen eye for humor and nuance. Schiff's writing is to die for." The Times (London) Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King, and Marina Warner. "An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J. Listen to a sample from the audio edition of The Witches, as read by Eliza Foss. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.Īs psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is the enduring American mystery unveiled fully by one of our most acclaimed historians. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an 75-year-old man crushed to death. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse.
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