Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, steps back from more than three centuries of hyperbole and supposition, giving us our most complete account yet. It can't have been easy: As Schiff points out early in the book, the Puritans of Salem village were often assiduous diarists and record-keepers, but first-hand accounts of the months of the hysteria are mysteriously rare-and those /5(K). · Stacy Schiff. Little, Brown, - History - pages. 34 Reviews. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of /5(34). · The doings of the "witches" of Salem, Massachusetts and the panic-driven hysteria of their persecutors, is an American mystery story that has captivated us, possibly since the s, and has produced a motherlode of great books. In that company, Stacy Schiff's The Witches is especially fascinating for bringing together extensively researched detail, immersive imagery, a tactile sense of Brand: Little, Brown and Company.
The Witches: Salem, The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. Now in paperback "History in the hands of Stacy Schiff is invariably full of life, light, shadow, surprise, clarity of insight, and so it is again and then some in her latest work, The Witches. Few. nbsp;The panic began in , 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 Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) and Cleopatra unpacks the fantastical story of the Salem Witch Trials in her latest seminal work, The Witches. Aside from. The Witches: Salem, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials. The panic began early in , over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar.
In a single year, 14 women, five men and, yes, two dogs, were executed for the crime of witchcraft. Many more were accused and acquitted, their property confiscated, their lives effectively ruined. The Witches: Salem, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials. The panic began early in , over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. "Stacy Schiff's The Witches is an indelibly etched morality fable, the best recounting of the Salem hysteria in modern times. Clear-eyed and sympathetic, Schiff makes the complex seem simple, crafting a taut narrative that takes in religion, politics, folklore, and the intricate texture of daily life in Massachusetts Bay, with particular attention to those 'wonder-working' women and girls who chose this moment to blow apart the Puritan utopia they'd helped to found.
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