Lois the Witch: [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition] - Softcover

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1427009570 ISBN 13: 9781427009579

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, 2007

Synopsis

Even while confusion and terror is rife in Salem, America, Lois is forced to leave her home in England and travel to that area. The maddening witch-hunts and the consequent tragic events are well elucidated; the melancholic and piercing truths of the Salem-tragedy are rendered in a heart-wrenching manner. An engrossing work, it also sheds light on the hardships faced by the early settlers.

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Review:

'The book, though little, has power. It was written with a skilled hand adept at portraying what beats beneath our fears, beneath our dreams and wants. It also talks of human suffering, pain, love and death. Though short, 'Lois the Witch' is a beautiful Victorian novel, worth savouring for a few more hundred years.' --Linear Reflections

'Elizabeth Gaskell has produced a well-researched tale highlighting the religious bigotry and malicious superstition, which surrounded the Salem Witch Trials. A reading group wishing to indulge in a little known historical classic would find plenty to discuss in this story written one hundred and fifty years ago.' --The Directory

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Only single-volume edition available

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1427009570
• ISBN 13: 9781427009579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224