The Salem Witch Trials Reader (Häftad)
avFrances Hill
ISBN: 9780306809460 - UTGIVEN: 2000-09Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two [...]
Cities on a Hill (Pocket)
avFrances Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780671645618 - UTGIVEN: 1987-11"We must consider that we shall be A City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people upon us," John Winthrop told his Pilgrim community crossing the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four centuries later, Americans are still building Cities Upon a Hill. In "Cities on a Hill" Pulitzer Prize-w[...]
Deliverance From Evil (Häftad)
avFrances Hill
ISBN: 9780715640876 - UTGIVEN: 2011-06Salem, Massachusetts, Winter 1692: In the parsonage of Reverend Samuel Parris, two young girls are seated by the fire and play at fortune-telling as snow falls softly outside. What starts as a game sends one of the girls into a hysterical trance, and a small town begins its descent into madness. Acc[...]
