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By Stacy Schiff The Witches: Salem, 1692 By Stacy Schiff The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
Schiff … The trouble seems to have begun when two young girls, Abigail Williams and Betty Parris, took to twitching, convulsing, yipping, rolling around on the floor, being bitten, pinched, and pricked by spectral creatures, and so on. Schiff's account of these terrors reads like a nerve-shredding psychological thriller * MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Best of 2015' * Stacy Schiff's The Witches deals with a horror we assume we know, but don't: the moral panic that tore apart the towns of Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. Host Rich Fahle talks with Stacy Schiff about her book, “The Witches: Salem, 1692” at the 2015 Miami Book Fair.
The Witches: Salem, 1692.
rawing from Schiff’s descriptions, what about the culture and routines of Puritan society would you say laid the foundation for the explosion of The Witches is a lyrical and absolutely riveting portrait of one of early America’s darkest chapters. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff explores the unsettling saga in a public conversation with Library Director Crosby Kemper III about her book The Witches: Salem, 1692. 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 exceptional The witches : Salem, 1692 / Stacy Schiff. I found the beginning half of this book to be very interesting, especially since there's frequent mention of the contentiousness of the young teenage and pre-teen girls in Salem, 1692 - in the court records as accusers and as suspects.
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. In "The Witches: Salem, 1692", Stacy Schiff provides a thorough exposition of what happened during the Salem, Massachusetts witch frenzy of 1692. The attention … Analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.
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It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and The Witches: Salem, 1692. We were wowed by Schiff’s discovery of so many haunting new details about a seemingly typical Puritan community that collapsed spectacularly in the face of abject fear, …
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. 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 exceptional "The Witches: Salem, 1692" by Stacy Schiff is *obviously* a very well researched book. Named a 2011 Library Lion by the New York Public Library, she lives in New York City. Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of Russia/American novelist Vladimir Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince.
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