Recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. After two girls exhibit strange behavior, the colonial town's doctor concludes their symptoms are the result of...
Puritans
- Author:Schanzer, RosalynSummary:
- Author:SPEARE, Elizabeth GeorgeSummary:
In defying the ignorant opinion of the local Puritan community in a Connecticut village in 1687, a compassionate young woman risks being labelled a witch when she helps a widowed Quaker woman and a bullied child.
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover. When she gives birth to a child, her shame is made public, and in the unforgiving moral atmosphere of colonial Massachusetts, she is made to suffer...
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband - long thought to be lost at sea - has returned to Boston under...
- Author:McPherson, AnneSummary:
The Hedge, set in early New England, is the story of an intelligent young governor’s wife who is repressed by the severe attitudes of the Puritans, to the point where she withdraws from society, and is considered to have lost...
- Author:Mitchell, Siri L.Summary:
In 1640s Puritan Massachusetts, Susannah awaits an overdue marriage proposal, while a powerful villager takes a fancy to her. But after a dashing military captain comes to town, she's unprepared for the sinister turn her life soon...