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  • The Last Witchfinder James Morrow
    ISBN: 978-0-06-082179-1
    Год издания: 2006
    Издательство: William Morrow
    Язык: Английский

    Jennet is the daughter of the Witchfinder of Mercia and East Anglia. Whilst her father roams the countryside in search of heretics, Jennet is left behind to be schooled by her aunt Isobel in the New Philosophy principally expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt’s style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of the witchfinders. To save her aunt, Jennet travels to Cambridge to seek the help of Newton himself. Isobel is burned at the stake but in her dying moments, begs Jennet to devote her life to overturning the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. This sweeping novel follows Jennet as she travels to America and witnesses the Salem…

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