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Original Title:	The Last Witchfinder
ISBN:	0060821809 (ISBN13: 9780060821807)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Colchester, England(United Kingdom) Salem, Massachusetts(United States) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania(United States) …more London, England(United Kingdom) …less
Literary Awards:	John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2007), James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2006)

The Last Witchfinder Paperback | Pages: 526 pages

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Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. Armed with little save the power of reason, and determined to see justice prevail, Jennet hurls herself into a series of picaresque adventures—traveling from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted island in the Caribbean, braving West Indies pirates, Algonquin Indian captors, the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, and the sensuous love of a young Ben Franklin. For Jennet cannot and must not rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business.

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Title	:	The Last Witchfinder
Author	:	James K. Morrow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 526 pages
Published	:	March 13th 2007 by Harper Perennial (first published May 1st 2005)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Witches

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This was, no argument, a well written book. What grabbed my attention initially was the idea that it was a book written by a book--namely the Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. On the whole it reminded me of Moll Flanders...a picaresque novel. While this is a long tradition for novels and writers to follow, the original picaresque novels followed rogues and other sundry sorts of villains/troublemakers. That's what made them interesting. In this case the novel suffers because the main

Looking back at the order of books that I have read thus far, I wonder to myself why I did not choose to pick this book up immediately after I finished reading Jonathan Kirsch's The Grand Inquisitor's Manual, a nonfictional account of the Inquisition. Now that I think about it, though, it was a good idea that I didn't go straight from Kirsch's work to Morrow's. The intellectual current started by The Grand Inquisitor's Manual would likely have prevented me from seeing and appreciating The Last

Jennet Stearne is now one of my all-time favourite literary characters. The device of giving Newtons Principia a character and voice, through which the Age of Reason is defined, was a unique stroke which grounded the story in reality. Ms Stearne, rare enough as a devotee of Reason and Science, and rarer still as a female character of the time period to do so, is wonderful. Stubborn, irascible, flawed and highly principled, her fight to rid Britain, and later the US, of the doctrine in law and

I only read 37 pp., but it was consistently painful enough that I feel just fine abandoning the book. Clever and well researched, but cool, emotionally distant and completely lacking in sympathetic characters. Completely. I bought it on deep discount and still feel misused.

I had to give this book only two stars (really, I'd say 2.5) because it took me for-ev-er to read. I kept putting it down in favor of other books. I didn't find the first half very engaging. It picked up after that.The peculiar narrative device employed here is that the novel is narrated by a book - Newton's treatise the Principia Mathematica. The Principia, in turn, tells the story of Jennet Stearne, daughter of a late-seventeenth century witchfinder. Jennet's father condemns Jennet's beloved

It has NEVER taken me 3 weeks to read 240 pages of a book.This book was too wordy. (I had to sit with a dictionary for some of the words.) The initial premise was good, and I did wonder how it all was to turn out...HOWEVER, by the 230th page (of 400 +) I found Jennet's, the main character, life so preposterous, I just couldn't read any more. Jennet was born the child of one of England's last "witchfinders." Mom died in the birth of her brother. She educated each summer with a science loving