Product Description: Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been "afflicted," thirty two had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and two hundred and fifty five ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders...read more

Discusses the Salem witchcraft trials and the social conditions that made such trials possible, including Puritan law, local politics, religious beliefs, and attitudes toward the supernatural.

Provides a glimpse into the ordinary lives and history of the seventeenth-century New Englanders who accused their neighbors, friends, and family of involvement in witchcraft. Reprint.

The author shares two decades of archival research to explore the backdrop of the Salem witchcraft trials, introducing readers to the rigors and terrors of seventeenth-century American life.

Recaptures Henry David Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond and Thoreau's writings about the nature, history, and people that surrounded him at Walden

Wry New England wit pervades lively tales about peddlers, parsons, seafarers, and ghosts, which are ingenious adaptations of traditional legends

Follows the activities of a fox living on the dunes and describes the plant and animal life that he encounters throughout the seasons.

When the town mouse and the city mouse exchange visits, they discover they prefer very different ways of life.