The Witches
Häftad bok. Orion. 2016. 512 sidor.
Hyggligt skick.
OBS, innehåller många understrykningar i tusch i hela kapitel 1. Inga understrykningar alls i resterande kapitel. Bruksslitage på pärmen. Gulnade sidkanter. Veck på pärmen och bokryggen. // It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before panic had infected the entire colony, nineteen men and women had been hanged, and a band of adolescent girls had brought Massachusetts to its knees...
'Was it like The Crucible? No, it was worse
Context is everything, and Schiff defines it; she interrogates her sources, makes every detail count, and her style is intriguing - sharp-eyed, discriminating, crisp. You want to understand the subject, and you
want to meet the historian'
Hilary Mantel, Times Literary Supplement,
Book of the Year
'Schiff is a biographer with a transcendent empathy and a sharp eye, a profoundly humane writer able to reanimate the dead, reprising their hopes and dreams, pieties and crimes... The result is electrifying'
Malcolm Gaskill, BBC History Magazine
"Schiff writes movingly as well as wittily; this is a work of riveting storytelling as well as an authoritative history'
Lara Feigel, The Observer
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781474602266
- Titel
- The Witches
- Författare
- Schiff, Stacy
- Förlag
- Orion
- Utgivningsår
- 2016
- Omfång
- 512 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 196 mm Ryggbredd 30 mm
- Vikt
- 404 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian explores one of the great mysteries of American history: the Salem witch trials.
