The Witches by Stacy Schiff

The Witches

Stacy Schiff

512 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. T...

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Moods

informative 94%
dark 48%
challenging 38%
reflective 31%
sad 18%
mysterious 11%
emotional 7%
tense 6%
adventurous 2%
inspiring 1%

Pace

slow 81%
medium 18%

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