Mercy Short Summary
Norma Farber

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Mercy Short Summary

"Brand Pluck'D Out of the Burning, Being an Account of Mercy Short, who was supposed to Suffer by Bewitchment." Norma Farber uses the words written by the Puritan minister, Cotton Mather, about an actual happening in late seventeenth-century colonial Boston to weave an engrossing historical novel. Through the medium of a journal, Farber has the seventeen-year-old Mercy Short relate what happens to her during the winter months of 1692-1693.

So that he can...

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