The Witches
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. 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 panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.
As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
English edition · First published 2015 by Hachette · ISBN 9780316200615
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Editions
15 editions
English
- The Witches · Hachette · 2015 · ISBN 9780316200615 This page
- The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem · Back Bay Books · 2016 · ISBN 9780316200592
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Little, Brown & Company · 2016 · ISBN 9781478913214
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 2016 · ISBN 9781474602266
- The witches: Salem, 1692 · Hachette Audio · 2015 · ISBN 9781478908241
- The Witches: Salen, 1692 · Little Brown · 2015 · ISBN 9780316200509
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Little, Brown and Company · 2015 · ISBN 9780316200608
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 2015 · ISBN 9781474602273
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 2015 · ISBN 9781474602242
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Little, Brown and Company · 2015 · ISBN 9780316353700
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Little, Brown and Company · 2015 · ISBN 9780316387743
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Little, Brown and Company · 2015 · ISBN 9780316391009
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Little, Brown & Company · 2015 · ISBN 9781611137156
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 2015 · ISBN 9781474602259
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 2015 · ISBN 9780316365819
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