Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search



The witches : Salem, 1692  Cover Image Book Book

The witches : Salem, 1692 / Stacy Schiff.

Schiff, Stacy, (author.).

Summary:

Analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316200608 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: xiv, 498 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Trials (Witchcraft) > Massachusetts > Salem.
Witchcraft > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century.
Women > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century.
Salem (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch 345.74450288 Sch 31681002808129 NONFIC Available -
Lakeshore Branch LP 345.74450288 Sch 31681002808459 LARGEPT Available -

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.

Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government, she lives in New York City.


Additional Resources