Rachel Dyer : A North American story by John Neal

"Rachel Dyer: A North American Story" by John Neal is a Gothic historical novel published in 1828. Set during the Salem witch trials, it follows the fictionalized minister George Burroughs and the invented character Rachel Dyer as they confront mounting hysteria and false accusations of witchcraft. With most of the story unfolding in the courtroom, the novel tracks multiple trials of alleged witches, exploring themes of justice, republican ideals, and the collision between Old World authority and New World freedom. This pioneering work became the first bound novel about Salem's dark chapter. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Neal, John, 1793-1876
LoC No. 07033170
Title Rachel Dyer : A North American story
Edition Portland, Maine: Shirley and Hyde, 1828.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dyer
Credits Alan, Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 74.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Historical fiction
Subject Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction
Subject Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Subject Quaker women -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 71766
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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