Last Witchfinder, The (P.S.) - Softcover

"Grim and gorgeous, earthy and erudite as well." -- Seattle Times

"Read[s] like a collaboration between Charles Dickens and Henry Fielding...Morrow is long overdue for a mainstream audience."--Denver Post

"Dazzling . . . [A]n extravagant, expansive, erudite, energetic feast of information and adventure."--Daily Telegraph (London)

"Endlessly exciting ... A grand picaresque tour of England and the American colonies ... Watch out for James Morrow: He's magic."--Washington Post Book World

"[A] richly detailed, cerebral tale of rationality versus superstitious bigotry."--Fort Wayne (IN) Journal Gazette

"An exceptionally engaging and piquantly thoughtful novel."--Library Journal

"This lively and thoughtful adventuer is filled with enough satire and plot to fuel two Mark Twain tomes."--Pages Magazine

"Grim and gorgeous, earthy and erudite as well."--Seattle Times

"This impeccably researched, highly ambitious novel -- nine years in the writing -- is a triumph of historical fiction."--Booklist (starred review)

"Here are storytelling, showmanship and provocative book-club bait, all rolled into one inventive feat."--New York Times

Horrified by the execution of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly convicted as a witch, young Jennet Stearne, the daughter of an eighteenth-century English witchfinder, takes it upon herself to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act, inspired by a cryptic letter from Isaac Newton, taking on the Salem Witch Court, Algonquin Indian captors, her young lover Ben Franklin, and others in the process. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.