It's all here in one devilish, oracular book.'- Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller 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. 'Stacy Schiff's The Witches is an indelibly etched morality fable, the best recounting of the Salem hysteria in modern times. She has opened up important new avenues for Salem scholarship.'- Bernard Rosenthal, editor of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt

'Stacy Schiff has beautifully combined remarkable story telling with historical accuracy and insight. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet ' The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.'- Joseph J. This is a superb book.'- David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wright Brothers Few writers combine as she does superb scholarship and an exceptional gift for language with amazing reach and agility of mind. '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.

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