The Last Witchfinder
Publisher: Weidenfield & Nicholson
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780297852599
Copyright date: 2006
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: The Pricker of Colchester
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter the First
title: Introducing Our Heroine, Jennet Stearne, Whose Father Hunts Witches, Whose Aunt Seeks Wisdom, and Whose Soul Desires an Object It Cannot Name
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter the Second
title: In Which Is Posed the Theological Conundrum, When Doth a Scientific Dissection Become a Satanic Devotion?
pagenum: 34; label: Chapter the Third
title: Concerning Robert Hooke, Antagonist to Isaac Newton and Author of the Three Laws of Priapic Motion, a Triad Certain of Arousing Controversy Even in an Age of Reason
pagenum: 67; label: Chapter the Fourth
title: A Public Burning Enlightens Colchester, Though Not Before the Convicted Enchantress Prepares Our Heroine for Both the Female Mission and the Male Emission
pagenum: 95; label: Part II
title: Earth, Air, Fire, Water
pagenum: 127; label: Chapter the Fifth
title: The Salem Witch-Court Declines to Cast the First Stone but Instead Places It upon Giles Corey's Breast
pagenum: 129; label: Chapter the Sixth
title: Our Heroine Variously Occupies an Algonquin Wigwam, a Philadelphia Townhouse, and the Nether Reaches of Newtonian Theology
pagenum: 163; label: Chapter the Seventh
title: A Young Benjamin Franklin Receives Instruction in the Virtues of Older Women, amongst Them Prudence, Passion and Electric Conductivity
pagenum: 223; label: Chapter the Eighth
title: In Which Jennet at Last Meets the Avatar of Her Ambition, Though with a Result She Did Not Foresee
pagenum: 260; label: Part III
title: Reason's Teeth
pagenum: 305; label: Chapter the Ninth
title: An Interlude of High Adventure, Including a Shipwreck, a Marooning, a Preternatural Magnet, and a Perilous Encounter with a Pirate Band
pagenum: 307; label: Chapter the Tenth
title: At Great Risk to Her Person Our Heroine Inaugurates a Scheme to Rid the World of Several Unnecessary Delusions
pagenum: 350; label: Chapter the Eleventh
title: A Metaphysics Debate Captivates Humankind, or at Least that Portion of Humankind Owning Subscriptions to The Pennsylvania Gazette
pagenum: 395; label: Chapter the Twelfth
title: In Which Truth Acquires the Clothes of Science, Justice Assumes the Shape of Lightning, and the Narrator Finally Runs Short of Words
pagenum: 441