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Arthur Miller's the Crucible
by Arthur Miller, William Bly

ISBN 0812034082 (0-8120-3408-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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A Break with Charity
by Ann Rinaldi

ISBN 0152046828 (0-15-204682-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books

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Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn't realize is that the girls are about to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent people. Susanna faces a painful choice. Should she keep quiet and let the witch-hunt panic continue, or should she "break charity" with the group--and risk having her own family members named as witches?
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham, John O'Hara Cosgrave

ISBN 0618250743 (0-618-25074-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The story of a boy who had the persistence to master navigation in the days when men sailed by "log, lead, and lookout," and who authored The American Practical Navigator, "the sailor's Bible." [via]
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The Colonial Architecture of Salem
by Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley

ISBN 0486412504 (0-486-41250-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Crucible
by Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford Weales

ISBN 0140247726 (0-14-024772-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Release Date: October 28, 1976. The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft-and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. "A drama of emotional power and impact" -New York Post [via]
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The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts
by Arthur Miller, Richard Eyre

ISBN 014200099X (0-14-200099-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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The Crucible, Arthur Miller's classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, is returning to Broadway. To mark the occasion, Penguin is pleased to offer this beautiful hardcover edition.

"A powerful drama." (Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times) [via]
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The Crucible : A Screenplay
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 0140259090 (0-14-025909-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The masterpiece of American drama is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Paul Scofield. Set during the witch hunts in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, The Crucible recounts the vengeance, mass hysteria, and collective evil that poisoned this small town. photos, some in color. [via]
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- The Crucible : A Screenplay: ISBN 0140259090 (0-14-025909-0)
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A Delusion of Satan
by Frances Hill

ISBN 0306811596 (0-306-81159-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
by Frances Hill

ISBN 0306807971 (0-306-80797-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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This compelling study of the horrific Salem Witch Trials--the first of its kind in over forty-five years--draws strength from new psychological insights into the roots of the hysteria that spurred the witch hunts of the late 1600s, and links them to the contemporary "witch hunts" of the twentieth century.

For more than three hundred years, the hysteria that gripped Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s has fascinated readers worldwide. Now acclaimed British writer Frances Hill has applied contemporary psychology to the Salem phenomenon and come up with startling results. Why were nearly all of the "afflicted" people women? What kind of mentality did the Puritans possess to place a four-year-old child in prison? What were the politics behind the witch hunts and trials, and what similarities exist in the witch hunts of the twentieth century (for example, the "witch hunts" of the McCarthy era)? In A Delusion Of Satan, Frances Hill answers these questions and many more in a conversational and frighteningly realistic narrative as she maps out details of the witch trials and subsequent hangings-information never revealed before. Discipline, morality, and intellectual rigor-these are all attributes that Puritanism bequeathed to the New World. Unfortunately, along with them came a tendency to regard an enemy as beneath empathy and deserving destruction. A Delusion Of Satan reminds the reader that these impulses, lurking in all people, can only be countered by constant reminders of common humanity. [via]
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- A Delusion of Satan : The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials: ISBN 0385472552 (0-385-47255-2)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
- A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials: ISBN 0306807971 (0-306-80797-1)
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Devil in Massachusetts a Modern Enquiry into the S
by Starkey

ISBN 0385035098 (0-385-03509-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy. [via]
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Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
by Marion Lena Starkey

ISBN 0809437414 (0-8094-3741-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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  Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
by Carol F. Karlsen

ISBN 0393317595 (0-393-31759-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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"A pioneer work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft."--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University
Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits" and fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events in Salem took place. More than three hundred years later the question still haunts us: Why were these and other women likely witches? Why were they vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft? In this work Carol Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society. [via]
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
by John P. Demos

ISBN 0195174836 (0-19-517483-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present. [via]
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Entertaining Satan : Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
by John Putnam Demos

ISBN 0195031318 (0-19-503131-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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Focusing on witchcraft reports and trials outside of Salem and utilizing case histories and psychological analyses, this study evaluates the incidents and trials within the context of late-17th-century New England. [via]
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A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials
by Laurie Winn Carlson

ISBN 1566633095 (1-56663-309-5)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee

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The Gardens of Salem: The Landscape History of a Moravian Town in North Carolina
by Darrell Spencer, Virginia R. Weiler

ISBN 1879704013 (1-879704-01-3)
Softcover, Old Salem Inc

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The House of Seven Gables: Library Edition
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Basil Davenport

ISBN 1557423024 (1-55742-302-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr

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House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gordon Tapper

ISBN 1593082312 (1-59308-231-2)
Softcover, Fine Communications

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. [via]
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
by Maryse Conde, Richard Philcox

ISBN 0345384202 (0-345-38420-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary Nanny of the maroons," who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her.
CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.
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  Hardcover, University Press of Virginia
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In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
by Mary Beth Norton

ISBN 0375706909 (0-375-70690-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The story of the Salem witchcraft trials is well known, from both historical accounts and dramatic retellings, such as Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Cornell historian Mary Beth Norton now offers a significant reinterpretation of the events that (by her count) led to legal action against at least 144 people, 54 confessions of witchcraft, 19 hangings, and one "pressing to death ... by heavy stones." Norton's contribution is to contextualize what happened. She studies not just Salem itself, but all of Essex County and northern New England, because so many of the people involved in the witchcraft crisis didn't live in Salem proper. She also says these grim events must be understood in relation to King William's War, which the early Americans called the Second Indian War. This frontier conflict and the religious interpretations thrust upon it created the conditions for what happened in Salem and the surrounding region, which, says Norton, would not have occurred in the war's absence. As might be expected, her narrative does not proceed along traditional lines. It is driven more by the academic imperative to break scholarly ground than by the urge to tell a harrowing story. For readers interested in knowing what really happened at Salem, though, In the Devil's Snare may be the best source. --John J. Miller [via]
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- In the Devil's Snare : The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692: ISBN 037540709X (0-375-40709-X)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
- In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692: ISBN 0375706909 (0-375-70690-9)
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The Kitchen Witch
by Annette Blair

ISBN 0425198812 (0-425-19881-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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When a single-dad TV executive hires Melody Seabright--a flaky rich girl and rumored witch--as his babysitter, she magically lands her own cooking show...and makes sparks fly. [via]
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Moi, Tituba, Sorciere
by Maryse Conde

ISBN 2070379299 (2-07-037929-9)
Softcover, Gallimard

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Fille de l'esclave Abena violée par un marin anglais à bord d'un vaisseau négrier, Tituba, née à la Barbade, est initiée aux pouvoirs surnaturels par Man Yaya, guérisseuse et faiseuse de sorts. Son mariage avec John Indien l'entraîne à Boston, puis au village de Salem au service du pasteur Parris. C'est dans l'atmosphère hystérique de cette petite communauté puritaine qu'a lieu le célèbre procès des sorcières de Salim en 1692. Tituba est arrêtée, oubliée dans sa prison jusqu'à l'amnistie générale qui survient deux ans plus tard. Là s'arrête l'histoire. Maryse Condé la réhabilite, l'arrache à cet oubli auquel elle avait été condamnée, et, pour finir, la ramène à son pays natal, la Barbade au temps des Nègres marrons et des premières révoltes d'esclaves.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 0130246476 (0-13-024647-6)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall

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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer

ISBN 1567312268 (1-56731-226-8)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Paul S. Boyer

ISBN 0674785266 (0-674-78526-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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The Salem Witch Trials Reader
by Frances Hill

ISBN 030680946X (0-306-80946-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England
by Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

ISBN 1555531652 (1-55553-165-2)
Softcover, Northeastern Univ Pr

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Few episodes in American history have aroused such intense and continued interest as the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. This volume draws exclusively on primary documents to reveal the underlying conflicts and tensions that caused that small, agricultural settlement to explode with such dramatic force. [via]
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 1853260290 (1-85326-029-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.
With "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride. [via]
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Tituba of Salem Village
by Ann Petry

ISBN 006440403X (0-06-440403-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
by Elaine G. Breslaw

ISBN 0814713076 (0-8147-1307-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr

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Witch Child
by Celia Rees

ISBN 0763618292 (0-7636-1829-2)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr

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During the witch hunts of the mid-1600s, many young Englishwomen died on the gallows, innocent victims of false or hysterical accusations of witchcraft. But what of those women who actually claimed the name "witch" as their own? In the pages of her secret journal, Mary Nuttall reveals what it is like to live in a climate of mistrust and piety in which differences are dangerous and rumors can kill, where she must hide her heritage as a healer and pagan. With a sure hand, she describes her beloved grandmother's trial and hanging as a witch, her own rescue by a mysterious noblewoman, and her eventual passage to the New World and the forest settlement of Beulah. There Mary falls under a curtain of suspicion when she willingly chooses to explore the dark woods shunned by the fearful colonists and makes friends with some of the spiritual native people. When several girls in the community begin to shriek and swoon, and the same minister who damned Mary's grandmother comes to search for signs of witchcraft, Mary is subjected to close and deadly scrutiny.
Breaking with most historical fiction about witchcraft (such as Elizabeth Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond), British author Celia Rees raises the stakes and the tension by placing a real witch at the center of her story. Witch Child is an engrossing, suspenseful novel that will cast a spell over both readers of historical fiction and fans of witchcraft series from Circle of Three to Sweep. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Witchcraft at Salem
by Chadwick Hansen

ISBN 0807611379 (0-8076-1137-9)
Softcover, George Braziller

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Much has been written about the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and much misunderstood. "The more I studied the documents of what actually took place in the community," writes Chadwick Hansen, "the more I found myself in opposition to the traditional interpretations. It seemed to me that a serious consideration was in order." He argues, for instance, that witchcraft was actually practiced in seventeenth-century New England, as it was in Europe at the time. Moreover, the behavior of the afflicted persons was not fraudulent, as some have claimed, but pathological; these people were hysterics in the clinical rather than the popular sense of the term. Further still, the clergy did not inspire or take advantage of the witch hunts as has been charged; on the contrary, they were among the chief opponents of "mass hysteria." In "Witchcraft at Salem" Hansen provides a necessary and thoughtful reappraisal of this turbulent episode in American history. [via]
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The Witchcraft of Salem Village
by Shirley Jackson

ISBN 0394891767 (0-394-89176-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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El Estanque de Mirlo
by Elizabeth George Speare

ISBN 8427932294 (84-279-3229-4)
Hardcover, Noguer y Caralt Editores, S. A.

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A mediados de abril de 1687, el buque Delfin entraba en el puerto de Saybrook cruzando la desembocadura del rio Connecticut. Una chica se encontraba en la cubierta, ansiosa de echar un primer vistazo a America. Kit Tyler, una joven dulce e impetuosa, haba viajado sola desde las islas Barbados donde se habia criado con su abuelo, para encontrar refugio en casa de su tia, la unica familia que le quedaba. Suapariencia, su mentalidad diferente y progresista contrastan desde el primer momento con la pobreza de la ciudad y el severo puritanismo del marido de su tia. La comprension de Hanna, unaanciana que vive completamente aislada porque la gente dice que es bruja, es un consuelo para Kit. La chica salva aHannah de la furia de la gente y ella misma es acusada de brujeria. El estanque del mirlo es una gran novela en la linea de las miticas yrecordadas narraciones como Lo que el viento se llevo o La casa de la pradera, ecrita con un perfecto estilo literario y magnificamente ambientada por los detalles historicos y las acertadas y bonitas descripciones, Nunca faltan emocion y crifio. [via]
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