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The last witchfinder, a novel, James Morrow

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The last witchfinder, a novel, James Morrow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-526)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The last witchfinder

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60402074

Responsibility statement

James Morrow

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. A self-educated "natural philosopher," Jennet is inspired in her quest by a single sentence in a cryptic letter from Isaac Newton: "It so happens that in the Investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicket Spirits enjoy no essential Existence." Armed with nothing but the power of reason and her memory of Isobel's love, Jennet cannot rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business.--Publisher description

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